#you

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

#every #exactly #four #friend #got

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

#atmosphere #cameo #contents #image #memory

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#because #cheap #comedy #comics #got

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

#gentleman #however #length #life #live

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appearance #because #compared #famous #gauge

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

#gig #know #never #not worth it #since

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

#believes #bits #boring #constructed #few

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ↗

— Betty Smith

#everything #filled #first #first time #glory

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away. ↗

— Bubba Smith

#back #i #just #normally #off

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. ↗

— Chad Smith

#drum #drums #each #get #good