Quotes by Peter Capaldi

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

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

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

— Peter Capaldi

Love

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

— Peter Capaldi

Life

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.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

— Peter Capaldi

Love

I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

— Peter Capaldi

Life

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

— Peter Capaldi

Hope

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 a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

— Peter Capaldi

Life

The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'

— Peter Capaldi

Love

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 you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

— Peter Capaldi

Hope

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

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!'

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom

I'm pretty good for an old geek.

— Peter Capaldi

Wisdom