What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay,… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
It'll be sad not to be Doctor Who anymore because that's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go, 'Oh, I'm… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
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,… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
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