Peter Capaldi Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.
My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.
One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.
'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
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!'
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another 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.
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'
Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.