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Peter Capaldi
Scottish
Actor
Born:
Apr 14
,
1958
Doctor
Me
People
School
Think
You
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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.
Peter Capaldi
Words
Too Much
Clever
Too
Piece
Linguistic
Just
In-Between
Swearing
Much
Mechanics
Thing
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
Peter Capaldi
Ego
Win
Somebody
Down
Would
Hated
Above
Had
Days
Town
Come
Because
Doing
Were
Improvisation
Just
Oxford
Biggest
Pub
Meant
Actor
Play
Early
Early Days
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
Peter Capaldi
Heroes
All-Around
Around
Real
Us
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
Peter Capaldi
Me
School
Our
Musical
Say
High
High School
New
Him
Chicken
Get
Going
Movie
Swearing
Hollywood
Producers
Need
I don't 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. It's in my DNA.
Peter Capaldi
Life
Health
Beatles
Doctor
Remember
Fog
My Life
National
Runs
Part
Along
Doctor Who
Became
Up
Being
Who
Deep
Growing
Growing Up
Spectacles
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
Peter Capaldi
You
People
Healthy
Young
Alive
Fresh
Shouting
Keeps
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
Peter Capaldi
Me
Girl
Breakfast
Once
Married
Opened
Blinds
Came
Green
Flat
Cooked
Her
Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
Peter Capaldi
Hilarious
Politicians
Nothing
Other
Bit
All Night
Abuse
Also
Terrifying
Screaming
Being
Room
Full
Each
Compares
Night
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Peter Capaldi
Art
Me
School
Parents
System
Because
Go
Were
Art School
Afforded
Paid
Grant
Here
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
Peter Capaldi
Time
You
Wait
Intervened
Else
Way
Tried
See
Cosmic
Something
Something Else
Only
Only Time
Make
Just
Happened
Your
Plans
I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
Peter Capaldi
Somewhere
Wish
Party
Else
Somewhere Else
Never
Like
Parties
Where
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 can't wait to get started.
Peter Capaldi
Myself
Doctor
Amazing
Wait
State
Find
Delight
Like
Himself
Terror
Privilege
Get
Being
Asked
Play
Utter
Started
I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.
Peter Capaldi
You
Yourself
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Out
Kind
Terrible
Learned
Because
Makes
Making
Been
Lot
Different
Different Kind
Really
Figure
Actor
Things
I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
Peter Capaldi
Doctor
Since
Doctor Who
Who
Played
Playground
Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
Peter Capaldi
Doctor
Old
Mirror
Nine
Those
Though
Lifelong
Since
Doctor Who
Him
Am
Front
Fan
Scripts
Who
Even
Downloaded
Played
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.
Peter Capaldi
Wisdom
Me
Theatre
World
Old
Made
Drama
Took
Resources
Later
Would
Wing
Take
Allowing
Part
Shared
Edinburgh
Without
Access
Years
Festival
Show
Profession
Even
Found
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
Peter Capaldi
Weathered
Industry
Still
Thankfully
Afloat
Storm
Many
Film
Film Industry
British
When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.
Peter Capaldi
Everyone
Would
Threatened
Feel
Learn
Always
Doing
Decided
Asking
Acting
Less
Mechanics
Set
Filmmaking
What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.
Peter Capaldi
Me
You
Game
Waiting
Fate
Fear
Tomorrow
Somebody
Else
Out
Constant
About
Could
Annoys
Majority
Always
End
Up
Hands
Want
Decide
Whether
Your
Show
Actor
Play
I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.
Peter Capaldi
Myself
Age
Waiting
Else
Telephone
TV
Find
Someone
Crummy
Am
Being
Want
Decide
Capable
Might
Production
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
Peter Capaldi
Me
You
Yourself
Way
Favourite
Well
Doing
Quite
Straightforward
Acting
Actor
I'm pretty good for an old geek.
Peter Capaldi
Good
Old
Geek
Pretty
Pretty Good
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.
Peter Capaldi
Great
You
People
Anxiety
World
Gift
Parents
Own
Gave
Our
Everything
Ease
Kids
Great Gift
Admiring
About
Seemed
Give
Neurosis
Through
Because
Without
Always
Conduct
Move
Maybe
Which
Themselves
Us
Your
Who
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
Peter Capaldi
Art
You
Strange
School
Everybody
Drama
Everybody Else
Else
Hated
Guys
Students
Days
Like
Were
Encouraged
Art School
Pipes
Did
Different
Want
Wanted
I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
Peter Capaldi
Good
Angry
Mind
Job
Being
If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.
Peter Capaldi
Me
School
Gone
Drama
Drama School
Out
Would
Had
Another
Because
Sitting
Just
Turned
Now
Actor
Here
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