Maggie Smith
Actress
"I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it."
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Maggie
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Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)"
Maggie Smith
Actress
"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
Actress
"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
Actress
"Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class."
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"Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive."
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"The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage."
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"But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
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