Hugh Armitage Quotes

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

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

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

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

My God . . . that grinding is a greeting.
My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe ~ Simon Armitage

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

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

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

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. ~ Simon Armitage

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

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous. ~ Simon Armitage

I do believe in pensions. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I speak some dwarvish. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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

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

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch. ~ Richard 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 kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square Miles of nothingness, out of the emptiness of the hills and the silence of the moors ... ~ Simon Armitage

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. ~ Allan Armitage

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

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

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that. ~ Richard 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

The bad guys have all the fun! ~ Richard Armitage

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

We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests. ~ Richard Armitage

My best pick-up line is My name is Hugh Hefner. ~ Hugh Hefner

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. ~ 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

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

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

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy. ~ Richard Armitage

We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq. ~ Richard Armitage

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

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

I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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. ~ 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

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

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in. ~ Simon Armitage

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call. ~ Richard Armitage

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. ~ Richard C. Armitage

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,
for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it. ~ Simon 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 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

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. ~ Richard C. Armitage

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension. ~ Richard Armitage

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. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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

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

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

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

They said we probably wouldn't be let back into Canada, suggesting we'd just have to live forever on the bridge, cadging fruit and peanuts from passing motorists and drinking the spray thrown up by the mighty falls, but the guard at the north end just smiled and waved us through. ~ Simon Armitage

The talk wasn't necessary. They could just be. ~ Hugh Howey

Stay healthy is not a slippery slope toward unhealthy ~ Hugh Howey

Screw you in the ass with an anglepoise lamp, ~ Hugh Laurie

The thing we need most is each other. ~ Hugh Mackay

You're the worst human I've ever met, ~ Hugh Howey

progeny, started to go off the rails, drinking heavily ~ Hugh Wilford

There was so much to do and not enough buckets. ~ Hugh Howey

Here was one man who knew of her secret love. ~ Hugh Howey

What would they see, anyone who had chosen to watch? ~ Hugh Howey

Gravity is a bitch until she's on your side. ~ Hugh Howey

Time is the true currency of our lives. ~ Hugh Vincent

Juliette trusted the darkness to conceal her smile. ~ Hugh Howey

And the earth sat upon his broken chest. ~ Hugh Howey

Just remember - when you think all is over, the future remains. ~ Hugh Goddard