Algernon Blackwood Quotes

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Algernon Blackwood

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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

Ha-Joon Chang
- Drink
- Alcohol
- Weak
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

Rachel Tucker
- Home
- Theatre
- Parent
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Felicity Jones
- Up
- Play
- Theatre
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Xavier Becerra
- Age
- Drug
- Abuse
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Frances McDormand
- Always
- Theatre
- Scary