Tony Robinson Quotes

Tony Robinson

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 15, 1946

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows what the narrative was.

Tony Robinson

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.

Tony Robinson

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.

Tony Robinson

Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

Tony Robinson

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

Tony Robinson

Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear, it can take me some time to slow down and all that time I'm missing the serendipity of the wonderful things that are all around us.

Tony Robinson

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?

Tony Robinson

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.

Tony Robinson

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

Tony Robinson

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

Tony Robinson

If I go to posh parties, I hover by the kitchen so I can get as many nice canapes as possible.

Tony Robinson

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

Tony Robinson

A lot of us saw Blackadder in terms of problem-solving - 'Did that work in that episode?' and so on. We were very picky.

Tony Robinson

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.

Tony Robinson

I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I've been there, it's been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you're happy to keep walking, but you'll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you'll occasionally see a small mammal.

Tony Robinson

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

Tony Robinson

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

Tony Robinson

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp of history themselves, they might have avoided costly wars. Instead they act like children. The only time that they think matters is their own.

Tony Robinson

I believe that any politician has to be constantly challenged. It is very easy for the rest of us to seduced into thinking they're smarter than us, or that they are privy to more information.

Tony Robinson

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

Tony Robinson