Peter Capaldi Quotes

I've had so many ups and downs in my career. When it's going good, you learn to enjoy the ride.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

I've had some bad moments in my career and maybe I started to really understand the game a bit later than some.

Everyone has bad matches or bad segments into their careers, if you get through it, you know there is going to be another segment another day.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

I have always been able to overcome difficulties during my career.

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction.

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say "we don't give up," that's something human beings who win will tell you every time. Breaks will happen. When they happen, you keep the same mind about what you're doing. It's about we the people getting on with our lives and doing it that way.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.