19 Tony Robinson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tony Robinson

English Actor

Born: Aug 15, 1946

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Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite. Tony Robinson

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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

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Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear, it can take me some time to slow down and all that time I'm missing the serendipity of the wonderful things that are all around us. Tony Robinson

I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I've been there, it's been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you're happy to keep walking, but you'll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you'll occasionally see a small mammal. Tony Robinson

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

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

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I believe that any politician has to be constantly challenged. It is very easy for the rest of us to seduced into thinking they're smarter than us, or that they are privy to more information. Tony Robinson

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The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened: the birth of alternative theatre. Tony Robinson

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I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational. Tony Robinson

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Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp of history themselves, they might have avoided costly wars. Instead they act like children. The only time that they think matters is their own. Tony Robinson

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As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity. Tony Robinson

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