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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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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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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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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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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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
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I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
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Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?
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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.
