Peter Capaldi Quotes

Until you make a name for yourself, they're like, 'Be a little more Denzel,' 'Be a little more Wesley Snipes.'

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight', which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

I'm no Zac Efron.