British - Actress | December 28, 1934 -
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.
Maggie Smith
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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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.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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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.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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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.
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