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
I don't want to make a film to make a film.
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.
I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.
I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.
I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.
In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.
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.
The higher your profile, the more people want you.