Peter Capaldi Quotes

There is no self-portrait of me.

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I describe myself as a human being.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

Those who talk to themselves are the truest actors.