Zitat des Tages von Richard C. Armitage:
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.
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
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 went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
I do believe in pensions.
Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.
I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.
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.
In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.
I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
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.
I'd like to live off-grid.
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.
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
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.
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.
I love being grungy and dirty.
People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.
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.
Everyone loves a good baddie.
Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like 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.
I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.
There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.
If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.
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'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.
I want to live in Middle-earth, actually.
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up.
I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.
Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me.
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.
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.
I speak some dwarvish.