Scottish - Actor | April 14, 1958 -
The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
Peter Capaldi
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I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
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Everybody loves monsters.
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When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.
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A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
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One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
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The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
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I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
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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.
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