Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Armstrong

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is an English actor, comedian, radio personality, television presenter and singer. He is the host of the BBC One game show Pointless, as well as the morning show on Classic FM (UK).

English - Actor | Born: March 2, 1970

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I'm a bit of a floating voter actually - I've voted for all parties.

Alexander Armstrong

It makes me cross that no one takes great pride in doing a good job. It's so rare to find someone who really loves their trade.

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

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 no longer have a Maserati - I now have children and a wife.

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

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

Our main house is in the country, all our stuff is in the country, and that's home, though the boys, who are four, two and one, are in school in London during the week.

Alexander Armstrong

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

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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I've got four boys and villas are not astronomically expensive, especially if you share with another family.

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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.

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I do love a good atmospheric soundtrack, me.

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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.

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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

The minute you watch your voice back with its proper animated character saying the words, that's when you learn exactly what you need to do next time.

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.

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

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

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My parents were relaxed, but very strict on manners. They encouraged us to follow our instincts and desires, so they were quite bohemian in that sense, but we had to work hard and that included chores.

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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

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

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 once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I'm asked for a game.

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 would love to think I'd inherited my father's patience. He's a man who achieves a great deal through gentleness.

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I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.

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Danger Mouse' is James Bond essentially. A rodent James Bond. Oh and slightly Batman too I suppose. And let's chuck in a little bit Superman while we're there. He's an old-fashion swashbuckling hero.

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I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off.

Alexander Armstrong

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.

Alexander Armstrong

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

Alexander Armstrong

I would slap a tax on plastic to encourage people to use more biodegradable things. I would also like teachers, vicars and other community workers to be paid as much as lawyers.

Alexander Armstrong

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

Alexander Armstrong

I was quite an odd child. We grew up in the middle of nowhere in Northumberland - it was lovely, idyllic, but we had remarkably little contact with other people.

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I love food and wine, they are both passions of mine.

Alexander Armstrong

I'm a trained classical baritone.

Alexander Armstrong

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

Alexander Armstrong

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

Alexander Armstrong

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

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

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.

Alexander Armstrong

I always have my lunch watching Tim Wonnacott doing 'Bargain Hunt'. I get quite twitchy if it's not on for whatever reason.

Alexander Armstrong

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'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove you've watched the whole programme.

Alexander Armstrong

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

Alexander Armstrong

I have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical repertoire, and I get together with a music teacher every few months.

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I grew up the son of the village doctor, so my father was quite well known. At home in Northumberland, frankly Dad is the famous one.

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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

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

Alexander Armstrong

I was teased at school for having a posh voice even though there was nothing posh about us.

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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.

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

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I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story.

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I suppose I am Scottish - Armstrong. They were thugs, basically, reivers - and I bet they were ravers, too. They lived in what was known as the Debatable Lands, so it didn't have any allegiance to either the English or the Scottish crown.

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

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

Alexander Armstrong

I would love not to be losing my hair.

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