James Agate Quotes
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
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…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
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.
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.