Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
fall play half
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.
art
I've always been interested in art.
book tuscany excellent
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
reading home play
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
funny fall swimming
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
reading exercise night
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.
scary important ongoing
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
lunch week monte-carlo
I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.
falling-in-love garden long
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
fashion men bothered
Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?
rain guy kind
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
provide
Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
beloved children normally pun tabloid
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
bought seen slept
Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.