Peter Capaldi Quotes

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• I wish I’d known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
• I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and…
• I'm pretty good for an old geek.
• The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
• 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…
• A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
• Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
• At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in…
• 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, if…
• I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
• When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so…
• A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
• Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole…
• When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
• My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
• Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.
• There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
• Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

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