Peter Capaldi Quotes
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I have a fairly normal domestic life.
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The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
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For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
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I don't have any expectations of anything.
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The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
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I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.
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I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.
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I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
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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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Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
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I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.
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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
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Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.
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I don't want to make a film to make a film.
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One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
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I'm pretty good for an old geek.
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I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.
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When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.
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We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.
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Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
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The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.
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It's one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, 'We're going to announce it live on television!' And you think, 'That's not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!'
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I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.
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I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.