Maggie Smith Quotes: top 44 famous quotes about Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith Quotes & Sayings

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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point. — Maggie Smith

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

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

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. — Maggie Smith

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour. — Samantha Bond

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

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

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

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

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. — Maggie Smith

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful. — Maggie Smith

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring. — Zoe Tapper

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully. — Maggie Smith

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. — Julian Fellowes

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

Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them." "I don't," said William. — Alexander McCall Smith

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast. — Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life. — Allen Leech

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course. — Maggie Smith

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary. — Maggie Smith

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely. — Maggie Smith

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. — Maggie Smith

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. — Maggie Smith

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand. — Maggie Smith

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

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith. — Lesley Nicol

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with. — Maggie Smith

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

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class. — Maggie Smith

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

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

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget. — Michelle Dockery

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are. — Maggie Smith

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

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you. — Maggie Smith

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

Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith) — Julian Fellowes

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

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

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting. — Maggie Smith

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard. — Maggie Smith

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

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

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed. — Maggie Smith