178 Quotes by Peter Capaldi

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.