Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie "Maggie" Smith, CH, DBE is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film and television spanning over sixty years. Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empirein 1970. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empirein the 1990 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts, and Member...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 December 1934
CityIlford, England
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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.
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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.
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.
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.
People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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'.
We walked in last September and told her we had been beige people, but we wanted to rejuvenate our house.
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.