Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldiis a Scottish actor, writer and director, best known for being the twelfth and current actor to play the title role in the long-running BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who. He has played numerous roles in film and television including the role of Malcolm Tucker, a spin doctor in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It and its film spinoff In the Loop, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth14 April 1958
CityGlasgow, Scotland
Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'
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.
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.
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
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.
Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.
I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
I wish I’d known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.
The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.
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.
The higher your profile, the more people want you.