Peter Capaldi Quotes

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

There are very few actors in L.A. who can call their own shots. If you're able to work on something that you actually like working on, you're a very lucky person, and if you're able to keep it going, you're very fortunate.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

I was afraid that if I said, 'Yes, I'm an actor,' what would happen if I was bad at it?

I'm not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles. And now, I feel boxed in.

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

I like writing, and I enjoy the production part a lot, actually. It gives you longevity in a career, where you know sometimes you might not always have the time to do the parts you want to do.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'