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Peter Capaldi is a British actor, born on April 14, 1958, in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for his role as the Twelfth Doctor in the television series 'Doctor Who', and is highly regarded for his other roles in film and television.

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

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“I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.”

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“It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.”

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

I Can Imagine Cards

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“I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.”

People Ends Picks Paint Clouds The End Of The Day Paintbrush

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“Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.”

Real Hero Real Heroes

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“I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.”

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“I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!”

Play Hate Quiet I Hate Madness Meals Restaurants

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“I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.”

Havens Doctors Doctor Who Playgrounds

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“A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.”

Girl Married Green Flats Breakfast

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“When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.”

Firsts Dream Fun London Smoking Affirming Cafes Hanging Around Life Affirming

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“A little showbiz never hurt anyone.”

Littles Hurt Showbiz

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“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.”

Too Much Pieces Clever Mechanic Swearing

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“There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.”

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

Men Want Feels Stills I Can Facts Grateful Coffee Extravagant

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

Heart Taken Doctors Viewers Doctor Who

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“I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.”

People Thinking Ideas Found Creative Fans Strange Warm Cheerful Eccentric

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“I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.”

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“I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.”

Actors Found Stuff Scary Brilliant Wounds Fantastic

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“We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.”

Behinds British Theatre Backgrounds Traditional

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“My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.”

Ifs My Family Patient

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“I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.”

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“If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Audience Struggle Battle Superiors

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“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.”

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“Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.”

Years Natural Ability Levels Taken Extraordinary Comic

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“I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.”

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“The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.”

Thinking Difficult Things To Do Difficult Things Lightness

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“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.”

Writing Trying Littles Said Together Wife Wonderful Scripts My Wife Tongue Slips Frank Wonderful Life Gags It's A Wonderful Life

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“I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in the business. I was in a remarkably good position. I got so many favors from people. I got the Monty Python technical people.”

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“I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.”

World Looks Kind Bigs Guy Winning Stage Terrible Presses Fantastic Introducing Oscars Amazed Belts That Guy Looking Down Schwarzenegger

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

Doctors Doctor Who

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“It'll be sad not to be Doctor Who anymore because that's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go, 'Oh, I'm still Doctor Who!' And you can go and blow up some monsters, and that's how you spend your day. And also when you walk around people don't see Peter anymore, he's not here, it's Doctor Who they see and he gets many more smiles than I do. It'll be sad to say goodbye.”

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“I think acting, oftentimes it's not about lines, it's about spaces in between lines and expressions on people's faces and their relationships. You can tell your own story, or a story that you're interested in, even if the lines don't necessarily point you in that direction.”

Thinking Acting

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“I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.”

Earth Wish Known One Day Geek

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“I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.”

Writing Littles Draws Bottles Thick Cartoon Specs

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“I'm pretty good for an old geek.”

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About the Author

Born: April 14, 1958
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 36

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