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Maggie Smith Quotes

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

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

• 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'.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 think I was just very odd.

• It's a constant battle. We're constantly fighting it from both ends.

• The store is Kathryn. Bright, fun and beautiful.

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

• Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in transition.

• She was able to maintain her legs, and she shot the ball (well) the entire game.

• Athletically, they had a slight edge on us. We did what we could to put ourselves in a position to win.

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

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

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

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


 

Maggie Smith Filmography

1958 - Nowhere to Go
1962 - Go to Blazes
1963 - The V.I.P.s
1964 - The Pumpkin Eater
1965 - Othello
1965 - Young Cassidy
1967 - The Honey Pot
1968 - Hot Millions
1969 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 - Oh! What a Lovely War
1972 - Travels with My Aunt
1973 - Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1976 - Murder by Death
1978 - Death on the Nile
1978 - California Suite
1981 - Quartet
1981 - Clash of the Titans
1982 - Evil Under the Sun
1982 - The Missionary
1982 - Better Late Than Never
1984 - A Private Function
1984 - Lily in Love
1985 - A Room with a View
1987 - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987 - Talking Heads
1991 - Hook
1992 - Sister Act
1993 - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 - The Secret Garden
1995 - Richard III
1996 - The First Wives Club
1997 - Washington Square
1999 - The Last September
1999 - Tea With Mussolini
1999 - Curtain Call
1999 - David Copperfield
2001 - Gosford Park
2001 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2003 - My House in Umbria
2003 - Skin
2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 - Ladies in Lavender
2005 - Keeping Mum
2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2007 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 - Becoming Jane
 

Theatre Show's
1952 - Twelfth Night
1952 - He Who Gets Slapped
1952 - Cinderella
1953 - Rookery Nook
1953 - The Housemaster
1953 - Cakes and Ale (revue)
1953 - The Love of Four Colonels
1954 - The Ortolan
1954 - Don’t Listen Ladies
1954 - The Government Inspector
1954 - The Letter
1954 - A Man About The House
1954 - On the Mile (revue)
1954 - Oxford Accents
1954 - Theatre 1900
1954 - Listen to the Wind
1955 - The Magistrate
1955 - The School For Scandal
1956 - New Faces (revue)
1957 - 58 - Share My Lettuce (revue)
1958 - The Stepmother
1959 - The Double Dealer
1959 - As You Like It
1959 - Richard II
1959 - The Merry Wives of Windsor
1960 - What Every Woman Knows
1960 - Rhinoceros
1960 - Strip the Willow
1961 - The Rehearsal
1962 - The Private Ear and The Public Eye
1963 - Mary
1963 - The Recruiting Officer
1964 - Othello
1964 - The Master Builder
1964 - Hay Fever
1965 - Much Ado About Nothing
1965 - Black Comedy
1965 - 66 - Miss Julie
1966 - Trelawney of the Wells
1966 - A Bond Honoured
1969 - The Country Wife
1970 - The Beaux Stratagem
1970 - Hedda Gabler
1971 - Design For Living
1972 - 73 - Private Lives
1973 - Peter Pan
1974 - Snap
1974 - Private Lives
1976 - The Way of the World
1976 - Cleopatra
1976 - Three Sisters
1976 - The Guardsman
1977 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
1977 - Richard III
1977 - As You Like It
1977 - Hay Fever
1978 - Macbeth
1978 - Private Lives
1979 - 80 - Night and Day
1980 - Much Ado About Nothing
1980 - The Seagull
1981 - Virginia
1984 - The Way of the World
1985 - The Interpreters
1986 - The Infernal Machine
1987 - Coming Into Land
1987 - 88 - Lettice and Lovage
1990 - Lettice and Lovage
1993 - The Importance of Being Earnest
1994 - 95 - Three Tall Women
1996 - Talking Heads
1997 - 98 - A Delicate Balance
1999 - 00 - The Lady in the Van
2002 - 03 - The Breath of Life
2004 - Talking Heads
2007 - The Lady From Dubuque

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