Richard C. Armitage quotes:

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  • Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

  • I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

  • I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

  • My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.

  • I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

  • Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's writing about.

  • I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind.

  • Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

  • I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

  • I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

  • You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

  • You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

  • I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

  • You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

  • I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

  • I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

  • It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

  • When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.

  • I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

  • I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up.

  • I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

  • I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

  • I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.

  • I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

  • Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

  • I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing.

  • My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

  • I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.

  • I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.

  • Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!

  • There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.

  • When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she was right.

  • Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

  • It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

  • I do believe in pensions.

  • I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

  • Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

  • I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.

  • I've done an awful lot of skiing all over Europe: I've done Italy, Austria, France. I skied loads in New Zealand - I did pretty much every ski slope I could find.

  • You've got to have baddies that you can boo.

  • A full beard looks cool.

  • Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

  • I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for.

  • The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.

  • I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

  • I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

  • Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

  • If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

  • I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

  • A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.

  • People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.

  • It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

  • You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.

  • Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.

  • I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

  • I love being grungy and dirty.

  • Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

  • I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

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