Peter Capaldi Quotes
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I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
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I failed the audition to get into drama school.
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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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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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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 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 think the nice thing about 'Doctor Who' is whether people like it or don't like it, somewhere, someone loves you and will always love you - and the more everyone hates you, the more they'll love you.
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I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
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There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.
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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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I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
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'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'
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I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
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I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.
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I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.
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What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
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I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.
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If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
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I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.
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I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.