Peter Capaldi Quotes

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

Peter Capaldi

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• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Important
  • Know
  • Me

• People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Kids
  • Thought

• I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Why
  • Know
  • Exercise

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Speech

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Book
  • Think
  • Nothing

• Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Chance

• I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Try
  • Just

• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Patience

• Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Me

• Libya stood as a source of stability in volatile northern Africa in 2011. The administration turned it into a failed state that exposed southern Europe to refugees and terrorist elements, all of which Gadhafi had warned about.

  

  Pete Hoekstra

• One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Writing
  • Want
  • One Thing

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Poor

• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mind
  • Passionate
  • Metaphor

• I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Secret

• The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

  

  Peter Capaldi