Quotes from Peter Capaldi

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.

'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

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

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

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.

If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.

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.

The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'

Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

The only person that I want to love me is my wife.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.