A biography for Richard C. Armitagehasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone loves a good baddie.”
“I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.”
“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.”
“Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.”
“Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.”
“I didn't become an actor because I thought I'd make lots of money.”
“I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.”
“I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.”
“Te Papa Museum is brilliant.”
“I want to live in Middle-earth, actually.”
“Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.”
“Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.”
“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.”
“I speak some dwarvish.”
“If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.”
“I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up.”
“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'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.”
“You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.”
“People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.”