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