Maggie Smith Quotes
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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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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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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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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.
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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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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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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 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?
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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, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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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. 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.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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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. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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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.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
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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 that.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.