178 Quotes by Peter Capaldi

Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.

I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

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.

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

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.