Quotes by Peter Capaldi

The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of Thomas the Tank Engine will be commissioned.

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

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

We dont consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. Theyre still magical characters, and the fact theyve been around the block only adds to their magic.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I wake up in the morning, and I go, Im Doctor Who! Im playing Doctor Who. Im Doctor Who.

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

Being asked to play The Doctor is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I cant wait to get started.

Im not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which Im grateful to her for. She made me read War and Peace. The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You cant walk round reading War and Peace - its like youre in a comedy sketch and you think youre smart.

I dont remember Doctor Who not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. Its in my DNA.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But youll also be able to go and find them again.

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters lives.

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they werent always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

What Ive learnt being an actor is that youve got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpses friends brother who was having problems with his marriage.

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.