Peter Capaldi Quotes
The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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The devil made me do it.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
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I knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together.
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Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
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You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
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The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
