Richard C. Armitage

Actor

1971-08-22

Quotes by Richard C. 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.'

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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