33 Quotes by James Agate

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.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

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

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

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

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.

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