Alexander Armstrong

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

— Alexander Armstrong

I would love not to be losing my hair.

— Alexander Armstrong

I'm a trained classical baritone.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— 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

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

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

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…

— Alexander Armstrong

My parents were relaxed, but very strict on manners. They encouraged us to follow our instincts and desires, so they were quite…

— 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…

— Alexander Armstrong

There's this weird thing going on where people think they've worked you out as a certain type of person, but probably better…

— Alexander Armstrong

I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove…

— Alexander Armstrong

I was quite an odd child. We grew up in the middle of nowhere in Northumberland - it was lovely, idyllic, but…

— Alexander Armstrong

So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music…

— Alexander Armstrong

If you grow up somewhere where the pace of life is very slow you enjoy the gaps between the pulses. I read…

— 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

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

— 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

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 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 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

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

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