Maggie Smith Quotes

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

Maggie Smith

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Internet
  • Performance

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Cold
  • Theatre

• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Theatre
  • Parent

• With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
  • Ghost

• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Play
  • Theatre

• My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Gold
  • Performance
  • Bear

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Mobile

• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Wish
  • Pain
  • Heaven

• If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Because I'm both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, 'That was so bad', is always followed by 'And there was so little of it!'

  

  David Sedaris
  • Bad

• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Ghost