Cinema Quote by Maggie Smith

“If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.”

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There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

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Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

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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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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

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Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a…

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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

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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.…

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The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University…

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“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 thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone…

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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

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We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

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I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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