The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème.… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
“Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
