If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical'… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe. — 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
'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I… — 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
What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of… — 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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