Peter Capaldi Quotes
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.
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To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
