Maggie Smith Quotes

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• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
• Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
• 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.…
• 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…
• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
• One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.
• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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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