"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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Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

Maggie Smith

#Elderly Quotes #Fool Quotes #Tolerate Quotes

“Start using your wings; they need some exercise.”
“The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.”
“Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.”
“The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life”
“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”
“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press
“I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what makes her tick, what gets her going in life. So I did a lot of backstory for who she was and sometimes it comes across screen and sometimes it doesn't. You never know, because you're not the director, but you can only do your work and hope that it somehow subtly is infiltrated in that. But I think the characters I've played for the most part have depth, just not in the way that you think they do.”

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