54 Quotes by Tony Robinson

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

It's not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I'm saying is: lighten up. This isn't weird stuff. It's interesting.

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their values were very much the values of the postwar middle class.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.