Top 100 Capaldi Quotes
#1. I'll be the first to admit it - after the first episode, I wasn't sold on Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor of 'Doctor Who,' with the bewildered Clara following behind like a lost puppy, haphazardly flinging aggression around like cream pies in a 'Three Stooges' marathon.
Rob Manuel
#2. I'm sure if Shakespear were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube" -Peter Capaldi.
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#3. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!
Steven Moffat
#4. I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.
Neve McIntosh
#5. Nowadays, kids ... young actors ... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.
Peter Capaldi
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Peter Capaldi
#9. You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.
Peter Capaldi
#11. Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
Peter Capaldi
#12. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
Peter Capaldi
#13. 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
#14. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#15. They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
Jim Capaldi
#16. You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.
Peter Capaldi
#17. Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
Peter Capaldi
#18. I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
Peter Capaldi
#19. I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
Peter Capaldi
#20. Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
Peter Capaldi
#21. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#22. If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
Peter Capaldi
#23. If you take the time away, you take the character away.
Jim Capaldi
#24. The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.
Peter Capaldi
#25. For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
Peter Capaldi
#26. I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
Peter Capaldi
#27. 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
#28. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#29. We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.
Jim Capaldi
#30. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
Peter Capaldi
#31. I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
Peter Capaldi
#32. I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
Peter Capaldi
#33. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#34. The higher your profile, the more people want you.
Peter Capaldi
#35. I failed the audition to get into drama school.
Peter Capaldi
#36. Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.
Peter Capaldi
#37. 'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
Peter Capaldi
#38. 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
#39. There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.
Jim Capaldi
#40. The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
Peter Capaldi
#41. I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.
Peter Capaldi
#42. I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
Jim Capaldi
#43. I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
Peter Capaldi
#44. If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.
Peter Capaldi
#45. Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
Peter Capaldi
#46. Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.
Peter Capaldi
#47. Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi
#48. We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
Peter Capaldi
#49. I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.
Peter Capaldi
#50. My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.
Peter Capaldi
#51. 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
#52. When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
Peter Capaldi
#53. 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
#54. You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
Jim Capaldi
#55. I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.
Peter Capaldi
#56. I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.
Jim Capaldi
#57. 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
#58. I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
Peter Capaldi
#59. But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.
Gina Capaldi
#60. I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.
Peter Capaldi
#61. I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi
#62. 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
#63. We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
Jim Capaldi
#65. One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
Peter Capaldi
#66. A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
Peter Capaldi
#67. 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
#68. 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!'
Peter Capaldi
#69. This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
Jim Capaldi
#70. The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.
Jim Capaldi
#71. 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'
Peter Capaldi
#72. Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.
Jim Capaldi
#73. You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.
Jim Capaldi
#74. But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
Jim Capaldi
#75. I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
Peter Capaldi
#76. For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi
#77. Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
Peter Capaldi
#78. I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
Peter Capaldi
#79. Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
Peter Capaldi
#80. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#81. I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up ... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.
Peter Capaldi
#82. 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
#83. When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.
Peter Capaldi
#84. If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
Peter Capaldi
#85. After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
Jim Capaldi
#86. A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
Peter Capaldi
#87. I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.
Peter Capaldi
#88. 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
#91. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#92. The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
Peter Capaldi
#93. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#94. I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.
Peter Capaldi
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.
Peter Capaldi
#98. If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.
Peter Capaldi
#99. 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.
Peter Capaldi
#100. 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.
Peter Capaldi
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