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
Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in transition.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.
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 am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
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.
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.