Peter Capaldi Quotes
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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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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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'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
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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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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'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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For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
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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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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 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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I don't have any expectations of anything.
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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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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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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 like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
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I'm pretty good for an old geek.
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I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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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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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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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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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 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.