Latest Peter Capaldi Quotes from Interviews

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• I think acting, oftentimes it's not about lines, it's about spaces in between lines and expressions on people's faces and their relationships. You can tell your own story, or a story that you're interested in, even if the lines don't necessarily point you in that direction.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Acting

  Source: dailydead.com

• It'll be sad not to be Doctor Who anymore because that's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go, 'Oh, I'm still Doctor Who!' And you can go and blow up some monsters, and that's how you spend your day. And also when you walk around people don't see Peter anymore, he's not here, it's Doctor Who they see and he gets many more smiles than I do. It'll be sad to say goodbye.

  Peter Capaldi

  Goodbye, Morning, Blow

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

  Peter Capaldi

  Winning, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in the business. I was in a remarkably good position. I got so many favors from people. I got the Monty Python technical people.

  Peter Capaldi

  Python, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

  Peter Capaldi

  People, Interesting, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Difficult, Things To Do

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Taken, Years, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Struggle, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

  Peter Capaldi

  Life Changing, Next Week, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

  Peter Capaldi

  Patient, My Family, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.

  Peter Capaldi

  Eye, Years, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Scary, Actors, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

  Peter Capaldi

  Theatre, British, Backgrounds

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.

  Peter Capaldi

  Mean, Thinking, Excellence

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com