Peter Capaldi quote: "I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him."

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that'...
PETER CAPALDI

The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Camero...
PETER CAPALDI

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
PETER CAPALDI

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It starte...
PETER CAPALDI

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
PETER CAPALDI

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
PETER CAPALDI

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
PETER CAPALDI

I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. C...
PETER CAPALDI

I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody fro...
PETER CAPALDI

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybod...
PETER CAPALDI

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
PETER CAPALDI

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
PETER CAPALDI

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is ...
PETER CAPALDI

I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide...
PETER CAPALDI

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withe...
PETER CAPALDI

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
PETER CAPALDI

Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I do...
PETER CAPALDI

I have a fairly normal domestic life.
PETER CAPALDI

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowi...
PETER CAPALDI

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me...
PETER CAPALDI

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at t...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and ...
PETER CAPALDI

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't ha...
PETER CAPALDI

My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, ...
PETER CAPALDI

It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it w...
PETER CAPALDI

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookso...
PETER CAPALDI

Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophist...
PETER CAPALDI

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval ...
PETER CAPALDI

One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I&...
PETER CAPALDI

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
PETER CAPALDI

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
PETER CAPALDI

Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.
PETER CAPALDI

Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by Willi...
PETER CAPALDI

I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and ...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I...
PETER CAPALDI

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something els...
PETER CAPALDI

I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and ma...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
PETER CAPALDI

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's ...
PETER CAPALDI

The higher your profile, the more people want you.
PETER CAPALDI

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
PETER CAPALDI

Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, wh...
PETER CAPALDI

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical ...
PETER CAPALDI

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was ...
PETER CAPALDI

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing...
PETER CAPALDI

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of t...
PETER CAPALDI

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not...
PETER CAPALDI

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
PETER CAPALDI

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we h...
JIM CAPALDI

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very...
JIM CAPALDI

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
JIM CAPALDI

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
JIM CAPALDI

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the ...
JIM CAPALDI

A bee is two and half centimeters long with a brain the size of a large peppercorn. Yet they can fly...
ELIZABETH CAPALDI

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.
JIM CAPALDI

We have huge brains and we can't do these things.
ELIZABETH CAPALDI

You might walk around and find a nice restaurant. Then you return to the hotel. Then you go to a mon...
ELIZABETH CAPALDI

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
JIM CAPALDI

They don't have a deep bench and we knew that they were going to come at us with a little more fire ...
GARY CAPALDI

I think we came out of the box good. Not great, but good enough.
GARY CAPALDI

I couldn't do much as a coach. I just had to let the kids play. The kids did it. Players make coache...
GARY CAPALDI

We took a film of this game, and each player will get a copy. But we do not want it to stop now.
GARY CAPALDI

David Johnson thrives on this kind of stuff. He loves the pressure. He loves the big shots. He wasn'...
GARY CAPALDI

I have never had an undefeated team. We are 16-0, but honestly, it does not seem like it. Our motto ...
GARY CAPALDI

We can play any style. But we've been in enough physical games like this now and we know how to hand...
GARY CAPALDI

It's going to be an up and down game. They're physical, they're tall. We'll see what we're made of.
GARY CAPALDI

That is a tough place to play. It's a little gym and you've got people screaming and yelling all gam...
GARY CAPALDI

The whole point is to raise awareness and increase awareness of our natural resources and our cultur...
JAN CAPALDI

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK

Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE

Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT

Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN

We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT

There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID

Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING

I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.

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I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.

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