The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.
When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.
In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.
Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.
Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.
As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
