It’s one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, ‘We’re going to announce it live on television!’ And you think, ‘That’s not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!’ Peter Capaldi Read Quote
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. Peter Capaldi Read Quote
I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night – like, say, ‘The Alma Cogan Story.’ But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people. Peter Capaldi Read Quote
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn’t a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing – it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people – when you came home from school and your mum wasn’t in, there were lots of people you could go to. Peter Capaldi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I’m sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see. Peter Capaldi Read Quote