Arthur Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.”

“I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?”

“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.”

“I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.”

“I've always been interested in art.”

“It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”

“I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery.”

“Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.”