Arthur Smith famous quotes

06-24-2025

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
-- Arthur Smith

#Rain #Guy #Kind
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
-- Arthur Smith

#Real #Perception #Painting
I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.
-- Arthur Smith

#Fall #Play #Noses
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
-- Arthur Smith

#Book #Tuscany #Excellent
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
-- Arthur Smith

#Live Life #Writing #Elderly
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
-- Arthur Smith

#People #Interesting #Perception
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
-- Arthur Smith

#Men #Age #Should
It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
-- Arthur Smith

#Awards #Gigs #Worth It
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
-- Arthur Smith

#Awards #Listening #Radio
My eyebrows could do with a trim.
-- Arthur Smith

#Eyebrows
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
-- Arthur Smith

#Believe #Sister In Law #Narrative
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
-- Arthur Smith

#Funny #Laughter #Eight
The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.
-- Arthur Smith

#Expression #Catwalk #Outfits
I've always been interested in art.
-- Arthur Smith

#Art
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
-- Arthur Smith

#Moon #Different #Shapes
About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
-- Arthur Smith

#Years #Looks #Four
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
-- Arthur Smith

#Jobs #Acting #World
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
-- Arthur Smith

#Memories #Atmosphere #Phrases
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
-- Arthur Smith

#Artist #Canvas #Glamorous
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
-- Arthur Smith

#Tragedy #May #Comedy
Every generation of children has its private hero.
-- Arthur Smith

#Children #Hero #Generations
I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
-- Arthur Smith
I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.
-- Arthur Smith

#Writing #Age #Faces
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
-- Arthur Smith

#Brain #Trying #Students
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
-- Arthur Smith

#Strong #Years #Punishment
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.
-- Arthur Smith

#Play #Office #Acting

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