Peter Capaldi
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.Collection: Christmas
Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.Collection: Love
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.Collection: Christmas
The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.Collection: Hope
The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.Collection: Funny
Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.Collection: Teacher
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.
I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.
I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.
I failed the audition to get into drama school.
I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.
Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.
I'm just physically stupid.
The higher your profile, the more people want you.
Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.
The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'
I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.