Peter Capaldi Quotes

I'm more an actor who can dance and sing if I absolutely have to. I studied theatre in college, but I studied drama, but I don't have that Broadway voice, and I'm not a trained dancer or anything like that. I identify mostly as an actor first and foremost.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.