Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

I do love a good atmospheric soundtrack, me.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

I'm a trained classical baritone.

— Alexander Armstrong

I would love not to be losing my hair.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

Andy Parsons was always very funny. He was in a double act with a guy called Henry Naylor. Dan Mazer was always…

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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 have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical…

— Alexander Armstrong

I suppose I am Scottish - Armstrong. They were thugs, basically, reivers - and I bet they were ravers, too. They lived…

— Alexander Armstrong

For years we've had all the big-hitting HBO box-set dramas, all these brilliant, witty, clever shows, and in return the only thing…

— 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…

— Alexander Armstrong

I would slap a tax on plastic to encourage people to use more biodegradable things. I would also like teachers, vicars and…

— Alexander Armstrong

Well I am breaking the omerta and telling the world about how the Arctic is surprisingly full of bustling conurbations and comfy…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alexander Armstrong

The BBC is a brilliant, infuriating, delightful cornerstone of our culture but it drives me round the twist. I will never forgive…

— 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

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that…

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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

Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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 have a blessed life. I do a job that I really love and I have a really good close-knit network of…

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

When I'm filming, my fitness levels fall off, but when I'm not, I try to go to the gym a few times…

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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