James Agate

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to read more

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 remade.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of read more

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

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look read more

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.