Peter Capaldi Quotes
Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
Quotes to Explore
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
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Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
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Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
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Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
