“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of compliance, experimentation, and risk over the sure thing. Restless riders are flexible and nimble; they resist doing the… — 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