Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Smith
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
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
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
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
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
Maggie Smith

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
Maggie Smith

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

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.

Maggie Smith
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
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

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
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
Maggie Smith

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

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.