Maggie Smith Quotes (24 Quotes)


    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.

    One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

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

    What was wrong with those people tonight Never have I heard such a cacophony of coughs before Is there an epidemic Slap them Do me a favour, slap them, it was awful.

    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.


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

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

    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.

    I've aged, Sidney. There are new lines in my face. I look like a brand-new, steel-belted radial tire.

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

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

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

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

    I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity. And I thought 'that about covers it really'.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr.

    We walked in last September and told her we had been beige people, but we wanted to rejuvenate our house.

    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.

    Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

    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.

    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?


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