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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.

Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.

Peter Capaldi

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

Peter Capaldi

I'm pretty good for an old geek.

Peter Capaldi

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 thing was awkward.

Peter Capaldi

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 I would feel less threatened.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

Peter Capaldi

'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

Peter Capaldi

I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.

Peter Capaldi

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

Peter Capaldi

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 play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

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

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

Peter Capaldi

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

Peter Capaldi

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

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.

Peter Capaldi

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

Peter Capaldi

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

Peter Capaldi

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.

Peter Capaldi

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.

Peter Capaldi

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

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.

Peter Capaldi

I'm just physically stupid.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

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.

Peter Capaldi

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

Peter Capaldi

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

Peter Capaldi

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

Peter Capaldi

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

Peter Capaldi

I don't go to pubs.

Peter Capaldi

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

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