Maggie Smith Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 28, 1934

Topics

FunnyHappyYouFindHeadAnything

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Jello Biafra

LifePeopleTryingYouNervousOut

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

BraveDoctorPushWeekYearYou

I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of 'The Return of the King,' he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.

Jeff Giles

PerspectiveKingMeFilmmakingKnow

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

John Sulston

ScienceIdeasResearchNobodyMore

It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

Ana Navarro

LiveTimeExperienceDiversityEasy

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Steve Kanaly

WorkTimeFoodMeDriveLoved

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Tommy Lasorda

SportsPathMeStraightNarrowKept

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

Mike Judge

AttitudeMoneyMeFriendsMeanCut

I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

Josh Fox

FaithSucceedEnergyThinkWorry

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Doris Lessing

LookTelevisionBigStartedQuite

I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.

Bonnie Tyler

ChildrenSisterBornSaidAlways

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

Richie Sambora

LovePeopleVoiceThinkStandEarly

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