Peter Capaldi Quotes

Peter Capaldi — Scottish Actor born on April 14, 1958,

Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director and writer. He has played numerous roles in film and television and is best known for being the twelfth and current actor to play the title role in the long-running BBC One science-fiction series Doctor Who and for the role of Malcolm Tucker, a spin doctor in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It and its film spinoff In the Loop. In 1995, he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life... (wikipedia)

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

Peter Capaldi Quotes

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