Top 161 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Capaldi - Page 2

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

I think the nice thing about 'Doctor Who' is whether people like it or don't like it, somewhere, someone loves you and will always love you - and the more everyone hates you, the more they'll love you.

If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.

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 of delights.

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.

I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

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.'

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.

I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.

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 to announce it live on television!' And you think, 'That's not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!'

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

The only person that I want to love me is my wife.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.

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

I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.

If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

I don't go to pubs.

I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.

Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.

If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

I wake up in the morning, and I go, 'I'm Doctor Who! I'm playing Doctor Who. I'm Doctor Who.'

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.