Words matter. These are the best Maggie Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn’t about fame. It was about acting.
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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.
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I’m not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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 that.
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.
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 of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all.
When you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.
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 that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don’t know what the future holds, if anything.
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren’t of course.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
I fear that I won’t work in the theatre again. I’m sad about that. But I won’t retire.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn’t really happen.
It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
When you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn’t really happen.
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I’m not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
I’ve been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you’ve done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it’s a great burden if you’re one of those fantastic stars who’ve always been beautiful; then I think it’s hard.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn’t ask them.
I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It’s odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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.
