91 Quotes by Richard C. 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

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

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