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

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. — Richard C. Armitage

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends ... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike. — Richard Armitage

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.' — Richard C. Armitage

God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour. — Simon Armitage

You've got to have baddies that you can boo. — Richard C. Armitage

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek. — Richard Armitage

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.' — Richard C. Armitage

I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran. — Richard C. Armitage

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break. — Simon Armitage

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. — George Armitage Miller

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. — Richard C. Armitage

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks. — Simon Armitage

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

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it. — Richard C. Armitage

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?
- Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One: Beyond the Pale — N.L. Armitage

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old. — Richard C. Armitage

I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war. — Simon Armitage

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use. — Richard C. Armitage

I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up. — Richard C. Armitage

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear. — Richard C. Armitage

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous. — Simon Armitage

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

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60. — Richard C. Armitage

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there. — Richard C. Armitage

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. — Simon Armitage

I'd like to act in a film without special effects. — Richard C. Armitage

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

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran. — Richard Armitage

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth. — Richard Armitage

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. — Richard Armitage

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn't know that was going to happen. — Richard C. Armitage

I want to live in Middle-earth, actually. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish. — Richard C. Armitage

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.' — Richard C. Armitage

Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna. — William Gibson

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

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'. — Richard Armitage

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing. — Richard Armitage

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

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

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage. — Simon Armitage

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

Everyone loves a good baddie. — Richard C. Armitage

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego. — Richard C. Armitage

Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that. — James Nesbitt

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred. — George Armitage Miller

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else. — Richard Armitage

I'd like to live off-grid. — Richard C. Armitage

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends. — Richard Armitage

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration. — Richard Armitage

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. — Simon Armitage

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do. — Richard Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty. — Richard C. Armitage

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians. — Richard C. Armitage

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall. — Richard C. Armitage

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43. — Mike Greenberg

I do believe in pensions. — Richard C. Armitage

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you. — Richard C. Armitage

I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered. — Richard C. Armitage

We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose. — Simon Armitage

I love being grungy and dirty. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

Look back. Look back at me.
Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, — George Armitage Miller

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch. — Richard Armitage

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

I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing. — Richard C. Armitage

You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away — Simon Armitage

I value my ability to keep state secrets. — Richard Armitage

Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me. — Richard C. Armitage

I'm the only honest person in Washington. — Richard Armitage

I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves. — Richard C. Armitage

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims? — Richard Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. — Richard C. Armitage

The bad guys have all the fun! — Richard Armitage

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict. — Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. — Peter Armitage

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand. — Simon Armitage

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable. — Richard C. Armitage

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. — Richard C. Armitage

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. — Richard C. Armitage

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. — Richard C. Armitage

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.' — Richard Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show. — Richard C. Armitage

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age. — Richard Armitage

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point. — Richard Armitage

My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer. — George Armitage Miller

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater. — Richard C. Armitage

I'm not much of a show-off. — Richard C. Armitage

I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach. — Simon Armitage

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children. — Richard C. Armitage