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

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

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

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

— 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

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

— 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…

— Alexander Armstrong

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only…

— 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…

— Alexander Armstrong

Durham is the most beautiful place. Whenever I'm on a train going north I have to stand, nose pressed to the window,…

— Alexander Armstrong

The Arctic as a lesser-known region of the world was the ideal destination - beautiful, mysterious, lethal, enchanting and, crucially, populated with…

— Alexander Armstrong

Danger Mouse' is James Bond essentially. A rodent James Bond. Oh and slightly Batman too I suppose. And let's chuck in a…

— Alexander Armstrong

The nearest village was a place called Pauperhaugh which was a village in the sense that it had a phone box and…

— Alexander Armstrong

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients…

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic…

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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 was going to say that Mark Gattis is an unsung TV hero - but he's beginning to be sung like he…

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Alexander Armstrong