Maggie Smith Quotes

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.

Maggie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleDinnerEatingThinkYouDown

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.

John Cho

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Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

Michael Beschloss

BusinessYouDividedFinalWhere

Without team-mates, it's difficult to play well.

Son Heung-min

PlayDifficultWithoutWell

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Mary McCarthy

ManPeopleAmericanSheBuyBeen

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Ludacris

PeopleSongGarbageFirstBoxBeat

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

Dele Alli

TrustYouGoYoungWantManager

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

David Sedaris

ListeningGuiltyPleasureBritish

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Christian Bale

FeelWantNeverSafePlaying

We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.

Sun Yat-sen

PowerPastRevolutionWantNever

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

Sebastian Thrun

MoonBackEarthGoogleShooting

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Scott Adams

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I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.

Norman Wisdom

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