Maggie Smith Quotes
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign.…
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Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give…
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.
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Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
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I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from,…
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot…
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then.…
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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match…
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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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…
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner,…
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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