Top 100 Armitage Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.
Richard Armitage
#4. Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
Richard Armitage
#5. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.
Simon Armitage
#6. 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
#7. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#8. You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.
Richard C. Armitage
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.
Richard Armitage
#14. Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other.
Simon Armitage
#15. 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
#16. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#17. I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
Richard Armitage
#18. 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
#19. I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Simon Armitage
#20. Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.
Richard Armitage
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away
Simon Armitage
#26. 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
#27. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
Allan Armitage
#28. The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.
Richard C. Armitage
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
Richard C. Armitage
#33. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#34. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.
Simon Armitage
#37. 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
#38. Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
George Armitage Miller
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.
Richard Armitage
#42. Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.
Richard C. Armitage
#43. 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
#44. I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.
Richard C. Armitage
#45. 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
#46. My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.
Richard C. Armitage
#47. I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
Simon Armitage
#48. Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'
Richard C. Armitage
#51. I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
Richard Armitage
#52. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#54. I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing.
Richard C. Armitage
#55. True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.
Richard Armitage
#56. 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
#57. 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.'
Richard C. Armitage
#58. 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
#60. A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'
Robert Gottlieb
#61. If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
Richard C. Armitage
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#65. 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.
Richard C. Armitage
#66. I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered.
Richard C. Armitage
#67. We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
Simon Armitage
#68. I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.
Richard C. Armitage
#69. 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
#73. 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
#74. You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet
Simon Armitage
#75. I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.
Richard C. Armitage
#76. Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.
Simon Armitage
#77. Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.
Richard C. Armitage
#80. I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.
Richard C. Armitage
#81. 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
#83. 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
#84. The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
Richard Armitage
#85. And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
Simon Armitage
#86. The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
Simon Armitage
#87. Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
Richard C. Armitage
#88. A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
Richard Armitage
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.
Simon Armitage
#92. As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.
Richard Armitage
#93. Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.
Simon Armitage
#94. I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
Richard Armitage
#95. If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
Simon Armitage
#96. 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
#97. When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.
Richard C. Armitage
#98. North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
Richard Armitage
#100. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information,
George Armitage Miller
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