A biography for Richard C. Armitagehasn’t been written yet.
“I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.”
“You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.”
“Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.”
“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.'”
“I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.”
“I'd like to act in a film without special effects.”
“I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.”
“Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.”
“You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.”
“I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.”
“I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.”
“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.”
“Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.”
“You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.”
“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.”
“I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me.”