Alexander Armstrong Quotes

Alexander Armstrong

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 2, 1970

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

Alexander Armstrong

I've come to love 'This Country' on BBC Three. It takes a while to get into the swing of it because the humour is very subtle, but it's very beautifully done and there are quite a few guffaws to be had.

Alexander Armstrong

Someone put us onto 'Nashville' which we loved. To start with anyway. It was trash but proper trash if you know what I mean.

Alexander Armstrong

I do love a good atmospheric soundtrack, me.

Alexander Armstrong

I've always been a keen waker-upper. I very quickly get bored just lying in bed.

Alexander Armstrong

I used to drive a scooter and once a minicab driver pulled a U-turn in front of me and I went flying over his bonnet. Happily I didn't do myself much of an injury at all. It was straight out of 'The Dukes of Hazzard'.

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Genuine talent does shine through but, in my experience, ambition will get you much further than pure talent.

Alexander Armstrong

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

Alexander Armstrong

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

Alexander Armstrong

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

Alexander Armstrong

In the olden days you cut your teeth on the northern club circuit. I've cut mine on the southern black-tie circuit.

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There's this weird thing going on where people think they've worked you out as a certain type of person, but probably better for them if they don't put me in a box, because if they do I am going to disappoint.

Alexander Armstrong

Actually, I've been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.

Alexander Armstrong

I lived on a barge for the first six months, with a cousin. Then on the floor of a friend's house.

Alexander Armstrong

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

Alexander Armstrong

At Classic FM we're not an exposed shoreline where anything might come in on the tide. We're a lagoon; it's safe. You can tune in late at night and know it won't be contemporary.

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So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music broadcasting was a whisker away from becoming one long silence itself.

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I'm a trained classical baritone.

Alexander Armstrong

I am very shy with people I don't know. I'm positively awkward.

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The nearest village was a place called Pauperhaugh which was a village in the sense that it had a phone box and a bridge. By the time I got down south I had decades to catch up on. We only got colour television in 1978.

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