Peter Capaldi Quotes
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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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Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
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I have a fairly normal domestic life.
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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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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 don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
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I'm pretty good for an old geek.
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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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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 think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.
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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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If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
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I don't want to make a film to make a film.
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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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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 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'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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My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
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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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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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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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I don't have any expectations of anything.
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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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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.