Scottish - Actor | April 14, 1958 -
I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.
Peter Capaldi
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When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
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I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.
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Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
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We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.
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The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
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I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
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What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
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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.
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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
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