I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.
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Intelligence I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.James Agate
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
James Agate
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
James Agate
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain
James Agate
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