178 Quotes by Peter Capaldi

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.

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.

I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

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

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.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

Keep going and don’t give up. You’re doing wonderfully. You’ll know how to fly this thing eventually.