Tony Robinson

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

— Tony Robinson

I have a passion for knowing stuff.

— Tony Robinson

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

— Tony Robinson

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

— Tony Robinson

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

— Tony Robinson

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

— Tony Robinson

I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.

— Tony Robinson

A lot of us saw Blackadder in terms of problem-solving - 'Did that work in that episode?' and so on. We were…

— 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…

— Tony Robinson

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

— Tony Robinson

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

— Tony Robinson

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

— Tony Robinson

Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear,…

— Tony Robinson

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody…

— Tony Robinson

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in…

— Tony Robinson

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able…

— Tony Robinson

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there…

— Tony Robinson

I believe that any politician has to be constantly challenged. It is very easy for the rest of us to seduced into…

— Tony Robinson

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tony Robinson

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a…

— Tony Robinson

A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds,…

— 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

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

— Tony Robinson

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

— Tony Robinson

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

— Tony Robinson

If I go to posh parties, I hover by the kitchen so I can get as many nice canapes as possible.

— 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…

— Tony Robinson

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

— Tony Robinson

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

— Tony Robinson

Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

— Tony Robinson

Ancient barrows get cleared away. Legislation is pretty much 19th century. Global warming means there is an awful lot of erosion, exposing…

— 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…

— Tony Robinson

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with…

— Tony Robinson

My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tony Robinson

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more…

— 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…

— Tony Robinson