Maggie Smith Quotes

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Maggie Smith

Loneliness, Between, Solitude

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
Maggie Smith

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Smith

Mind, Speak, Voice

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith

Rather, Hopeless, Bright

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

Theatre, Gone, Ghost

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.
Maggie Smith

Funny, Happy, Find

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.
Maggie Smith

Down, While, Turn

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith

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.
Maggie Smith

Change, Age, Hope

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.
Maggie Smith

Good, True, Why

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?
Maggie Smith

Why, Else, Makes

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

Far, Upset, Sane

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith

Past, Prime, Fifty

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
Maggie Smith

Made, Films, Elderly

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.
Maggie Smith

Future, Feeling, Serious

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
Maggie Smith

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith

Working, Outside, Elements

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.
Maggie Smith

Nothing, Him, Said

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
Maggie Smith

Point, Listen, Kick

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Maggie Smith

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.
Maggie Smith

Person, Energy, Last

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
Maggie Smith

Often, Personal, Ask

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.
Maggie Smith

Nothing, Between, Actor

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.
Maggie Smith

Yourself, Saying, Together

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

Lucky, Era, Granny

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Nationality: British

Born: December 28, 1934

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