Peter Capaldi Quotes
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If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.
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'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
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The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
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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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For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
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I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.
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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 turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
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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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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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I wake up in the morning, and I go, 'I'm Doctor Who! I'm playing Doctor Who. I'm Doctor Who.'
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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'm pretty good for an old geek.
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I don't have any expectations of anything.
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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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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 spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
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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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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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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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I'm just physically stupid.
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I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.