178 Quotes by Peter Capaldi

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

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

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

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!

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.'

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

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.

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

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!'