Peter Capaldi Quotes
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Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.
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The higher your profile, the more people want you.
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I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
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I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
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Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.
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The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'
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'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.
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One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.
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I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
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I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
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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.
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Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
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I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
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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.
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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
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Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
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For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
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I think all actors experience ups and downs.
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I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.
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The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.
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I don't go to pubs.
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One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.
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I don't want to make a film to make a film.
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I have a fairly normal domestic life.