Tony Robinson Quotes

Tony Robinson

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 15, 1946

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

Tony Robinson

Fifty one per cent of 'Time Team' viewers are not of my gender. And that surprised me, because I thought it'd be at least 60 per cent male.

Tony Robinson

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.

Tony Robinson

There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the clearances, and that so much of the landscape has been owned by so few people that didn't want it messed around with.

Tony Robinson

As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity.

Tony Robinson

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Tony Robinson

Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite.

Tony Robinson

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre movement.

Tony Robinson

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

Tony Robinson

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened: the birth of alternative theatre.

Tony Robinson

A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he'd seen 'Time Team', he knew exactly what to do with it - he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.

Tony Robinson

Ancient barrows get cleared away. Legislation is pretty much 19th century. Global warming means there is an awful lot of erosion, exposing new archaeology, there is not the funding around to deal with it.

Tony Robinson

As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology.

Tony Robinson

If you were going to protect Buckingham Palace, you wouldn't put a tunnel in halfway down the Mall. If you wanted to protected Wembley Stadium, you wouldn't put a tunnel halfway up Wembley Way.

Tony Robinson

The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.

Tony Robinson

The work that I do doesn't make me feel uptight, It energises me.

Tony Robinson

I often get very tired but I'll just have a good sleep and a day off and then I'm fine to go again.

Tony Robinson

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

Tony Robinson

It's not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I'm saying is: lighten up. This isn't weird stuff. It's interesting.

Tony Robinson

For a long time, the paranormal was a legitimate area of explanation for quite a lot of people.

Tony Robinson