Maggie Smith famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#People #Get Better #Different
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 #Ephemeral
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

#Cancer #Peculiar #Want
I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.
-- Maggie Smith

#Grateful #Thinking #Age
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
-- Maggie Smith

#Loneliness #Differences #Solitude
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

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

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

#Thinking #Careers #Pigeons
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
-- Maggie Smith

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

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

#Believe #People
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

#Home #Thinking #People
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

#Couple #Writing #Years
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.
-- Maggie Smith

#Actors #Want #Emotion
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
-- Maggie Smith

#Stage #Performances
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

#Thinking #Goes On #Honest
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

#People #Age #Want
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
-- Maggie Smith

#Thinking #Elderly #People
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
-- Maggie Smith

#Motherhood #Upset #Toby
One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.
-- Maggie Smith

#School #Acting #Wanted
Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
-- Maggie Smith

#Class #Middle #Dear
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
-- Maggie Smith

#Lucky #Eras #Granny
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
-- Maggie Smith

#Elements #Aspect #Physicality
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
-- Maggie Smith

#Girl #Giving #Age
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

#Thinking #Years #Wind
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

#Elderly #Fool #Tolerate
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

#Sides #Amusing

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