Peter Capaldi Quotes
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.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.
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I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.
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Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.
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Your body is the child of your soul.
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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.
