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

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  • It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

    People   Age   Want  
    "Quote of the Day: 'It’s a Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five Years Old'" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2012.
  • I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

  • I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.

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  • I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • 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.

    Girl   Giving   Age  
    "Fictional character: Jean Brodie". "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", www.imdb.com. 1969.
  • 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.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • 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.

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

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  • 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 Fighting To Stagger Through The Last Harry Potter" by Josh Tyler, www.cinemablend.com. October 06, 2009.
  • We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

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  • My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It's our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That's a weird responsibility, especially in a world that feels as good as it feels bad.

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  • 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.

    "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
  • I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

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  • There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

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

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • 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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  • Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

    "Maggie Smith, of thee we sing". www.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.
  • My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

    "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
  • I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

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

    "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
  • 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.

    "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
  • There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • 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 just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.

    "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.
  • People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

    People  
    "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
  • 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.

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