Top 45 Robson Green Quotes

Anybody who tells me theyre not going to pay tax weve got an NHS system on its knees I tell you what, my son was in real trouble when he was young and we took him to the hospital, there were four specialists waiting for him. Thats why you pay your taxes.

I get to be a real adventurer with my fishing work. The acting work is free, I always say I get paid for the waiting around.

When I was three, I ran over my brother, David. Hed just been born, everybody was paying him attention and being the narcissist that I am, I ran him over with my tricycle.

Too many times I see these omnipotent detectives who know everything, who pull up in really slick cars, and their hair’s all really nice and the girls fall in love with them. They haven’t earned the right. It just doesn’t happen like that.

Considering all the amazing experiences Ive had in my career, Im useless when it comes to general life skills.

When I’m acting, I’m pretending to be someone else, but when I fish, I’m just Robson.

Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.

My mother has dementia, and certain people have a short fuse with my mother and the way she is, because shes on a loop, and she repeats certain things constantly all day.

I dont like being classed as a celebrity. Im a normal actor whos survived. I find the people at those parties are just there to be seen rather than to engage. That isnt me.

I always thought my father hated his job so much, but I was wrong. He loved being with his friends and comrades, and also loved doing the things outside his life of work with them.

I did a TV job, ‘Aint Misbehavin, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.

Im in the last third of my life, all right, and I just want to have fun. I want to do things that make me genuinely happy, and Grantchester is a happy place, it really is.

When I looked at the family tree and at where my ancestors lived, it was places like Rothbury and Tropton! I was going, ‘No, that can’t be the reason why I feel so at home there.’ But could it be in my DNA? It’s kind of shocking.

By design were meant to eat fish and fish is good for you. Psychiatrists and therapists recommend it for depression, especially the omega-3 oils in mackerel.

Mrs Wheeler at Dudley Middle School, where I went from 10 to 13, also saw I had the ability to perform and entertain people.

And working on ‘Grantchester’ is a joy. Ive been in the business for 35 years and Ive never been on a film set that is so joyous and life-affirming.

My mum loves me being in magazines.

If I was to live life again, I wouldnt make any changes.

My mother, Anne, was a cleaner and a shopkeeper. Out of economic necessity she had to hold down two jobs and she would take me and my older sisters, Dawn and Joanna, and my younger brother, David, with her when she cleaned houses.

My seven-year-old spirit is still there. I still think I can run like a gazelle, like I did at 21.

In television – not film, and not factual, nothing else – within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

Never do anything that you dont instinctively feel comfortable with. Always trust your instincts.

If it’s not working out, I’m a fan of divorce.

We take our health for granted until something awful happens.

Fishing is my therapy. Its such a great immersion into life.

I think James Norton is going to be one of the biggest stars in Britain.

I have a Category 4 Pyrotechnics licence and I do firework displays.

Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs out there, and it shapes and crafs a particular type of person.

Ive never had to change a word in a Grantchester script. Thats very unusual for me.

Ive traveled around the world, seen 130+ countries around the world. Ive been so privileged, but theres no place like home.

You wouldnt believe how much I got paid for Soldier Soldier after a TV exec drunkenly told me that they couldnt make it without me.

When I look at a script, I basically ask myself, ‘Do I believe the relationships? Are they people like you and me?’ I have to be able to see myself in it.

I get up at five in the morning if the schedule demands it and with all my lines learned.

In Surrey, we’re surrounded by countryside and wildlife. And I love my garden. My father was never more at peace than when he was in his garden. I’ve inherited his green fingers.

I can pay the bills doing what I love, and Im able to fish; Ive got a really wonderful life. And if people still see me as a heart-throb, great.

Happy people stay together in my philosophy.

Acting was never part of the plan – at one point I wanted to be an RAF pilot, but I wasnt made of the right stuff.

I went for officer training to be a fighter pilot, but never got past the aptitude test. So I decided to put on makeup and ponce about in front of a camera.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

Fishing’s such a beautiful activity which makes perfect sense to me. It’s like a therapy, because you are surrounded by nature, and that helps you get a proper rhythm for life.

I’m always fascinated by something that leaves the surface of the earth. My series, ‘Rocket Man’, was based on a true story of a man who put his wife’s ashes into space.

I didnt learn until I was about 26 that my dad was a national ballroom dancing champion. He won loads of trophies. Im not sure why he was so quiet about his achievements. Maybe he thought ballroom dancing wasnt a manly thing to do.

It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.

The Tyne is at the bottom of my garden. When the river came up 16ft, 7ft of that went through my home. There wasnt only salmon in the Tyne – my three-piece suite was in there too. I had to be rescued. It was a year-and-a-half before we could move back in.

I dont want to go to LA or anything. I love working, but also cherish the time I get to spend at home with my son.