Peter Capaldi Quotes
The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
Everybody loves monsters.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
'Atlantic City' is very good.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.
Peter Capaldi
Scottish actor
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