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
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 went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody… — 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… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like… — 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 was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give… — 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
![“I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in…” quote by Peter Capaldi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/850/peter-capaldi-2535_bits_i-knew-richard-e-grant-and-i-went-to-him_238430.jpg)
