Arthur Smith Quotes

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• Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
• The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
• About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
• Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.
• Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
• After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid…
• An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
• Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
• Every generation of children has its private hero.
• I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
• I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.
• I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
• I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia…
• I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob…
• I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
• I've always been interested in art.
• If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
• It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
• It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
• It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

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