"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all."
Read quote
57 likes
Quote collection
Maggie Smith quotes (page 1 of 3)
59 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it."
Read quote
55 likes
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
Read quote
54 likes
"When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything."
Read quote
52 likes
"Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point."
Read quote
51 likes
"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."
Read quote
29 likes
"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."
Read quote
24 likes
"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."
Read quote
20 likes
"Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."
Read quote
20 likes
"I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old."
Read quote
20 likes
"One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting."
Read quote
19 likes
"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."
Read quote
18 likes
"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?"
Read quote
17 likes
"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."
Read quote
16 likes
"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."
Read quote
16 likes
"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."
Read quote
13 likes
"Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard."
Read quote
13 likes
"I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me."
Read quote
13 likes
"Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness"
Read quote
13 likes
"Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class."
Read quote
13 likes