James Agate

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

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 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.