British - Actress | December 28, 1934 -
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?
Maggie Smith
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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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.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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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.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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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.
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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.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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