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All Quotes by author - Richard C. Armitage

" 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. "

" A full beard looks cool. "

" As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.' "

" I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. "

" I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for. "

" I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal. "

" If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely. "

" I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall. "

" I love being grungy and dirty. "

" I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about. "

" I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor. "

" I speak some dwarvish. "

" I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. "

The Hardest Thing

" I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves. "

" I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty. "

" I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran. "

" I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up. "

" Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. "

" Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare. "

" Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production. "

" Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. "

" Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me. "

" Te Papa Museum is brilliant. "

" Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines. "

" Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's writing about. "

" You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales. "

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