I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.
Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.
Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
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.
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.
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?
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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.
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.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
Dr. Maggie DiNome was given the Duke Award for her tireless efforts and stellar contributions to the eradication of cancer. But unfortunately my weight seems much more important to some of you. While I will admit the dress didn't photograph as well as it did in my kitchen, I will also admit I felt very pretty. In fact, I feel beautiful.
We [me,Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson ] rehearsed [Suddenly, Last Summer] like a play for a month, and then we shot it over the course of... I believe it was 10 days. All live, basically. Long, uninterrupted takes. And for me, a lot of it is me going head to head with Maggie Smith. And anybody who's ever had that opportunity never forgets it! It's a real career highlight, and it was everything I ever thought it would be, and more.
I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.
[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role was to say, "And then what happened? Tell me more." But I wanted to do it was because a) it was Tennessee Williams, a great writer, and b) it was Richard Eyre, an amazing director. And to work with those two amazing women!
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