The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper – perhaps Welsh rarebit – and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. Arthur Smith Read Quote
It is London fashion week, and once again I haven’t been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Obviously I am not bothered about men’s fashion – is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross? Arthur Smith Read Quote
A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don’t agree. Arthur Smith Read Quote
The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression. Arthur Smith Read Quote
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Sometimes it’s good to do something that you’ve never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John’s new album. Arthur Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
