Peter Capaldi Quotes

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Peter Capaldi

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 14, 1958

If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

Peter Capaldi

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.

Peter Capaldi

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

Peter Capaldi

Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.

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I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.

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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

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Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

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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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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.

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The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

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What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

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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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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

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The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

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A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

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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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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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Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.

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I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

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Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'

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