Maggie Smith Quotes
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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. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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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.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.
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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.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.