Alexander Armstrong Quotes

Alexander Armstrong

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 2, 1970

When I'm filming, my fitness levels fall off, but when I'm not, I try to go to the gym a few times a week.

Alexander Armstrong

I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.

Alexander Armstrong

I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously good fun.

Alexander Armstrong

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

Alexander Armstrong

I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or because of poor communication.

Alexander Armstrong

I don't know about scared, but 'Chernobyl' definitely made me deeply uncomfortable. Almost addictively uncomfortable: don't know what that says about me. But I came to love the tatty Soviet brutalism of it.

Alexander Armstrong

Countdown came about at a time when we'd just had our first baby, and, if I'm entirely honest, it looked like an income - a salary - something I'd never had before.

Alexander Armstrong

Well I am breaking the omerta and telling the world about how the Arctic is surprisingly full of bustling conurbations and comfy hotels so no explorer will ever speak to me again.

Alexander Armstrong

I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I went to the Durham School. Edinburgh's my favourite city in the whole world. I don't think there's anywhere that comes close to it.

Alexander Armstrong

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only by the occasional Berghaus-clad James Cracknell type striding manfully out of the spindrift.

Alexander Armstrong

I ended up at Durham School, which was lovely, then Trinity College Cambridge.

Alexander Armstrong

I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.

Alexander Armstrong

I love doing children's TV. You get such extraordinarily positive feedback from your audience too.

Alexander Armstrong

If you grow up somewhere where the pace of life is very slow you enjoy the gaps between the pulses. I read a lot and, boy, did I practise the piano.

Alexander Armstrong

I'd take lying by the pool doing nothing over aimlessly wandering the streets clutching a guidebook.

Alexander Armstrong

I'm dementedly optimistic, and whoever I'm with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.

Alexander Armstrong

I have a blessed life. I do a job that I really love and I have a really good close-knit network of friends and family.

Alexander Armstrong

Andy Parsons was always very funny. He was in a double act with a guy called Henry Naylor. Dan Mazer was always a very funny guy.

Alexander Armstrong

Alpacas are much more biddable creatures. Llamas are horrible. As a species, it's probably for the best that they're wary of us. But on a personal level, I find it very hard to come to terms with.

Alexander Armstrong

Durham is the most beautiful place. Whenever I'm on a train going north I have to stand, nose pressed to the window, as we pass Durham. I don't think there's a better view in the world.

Alexander Armstrong