54 Quotes by Tony Robinson

What’s the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

The paradox is that when you can get into right versus wrong bickering in personal relationships – even if you believe you have won – you have lost.

As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology.

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.

Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.