Maggie Smith Quotes

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

Maggie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfFightPeopleMeFightingYou

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Joel Siegel

NiceRealMovieProducers

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Matthew Simpson

TruthConflictWrongHumanRight

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Jean Paul Gaultier

LoveMyselfI AmTheatreFashion

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

Johnny Colt

FatherMilitary

I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.

John Singleton

BestDonePossibleTryFilmDeal

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

CultureFunHardestExcitingPart

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

GoodMarriageWifeHappyYouBad

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Robert Anton Wilson

LifeMeThinkWrongUpPlanet

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Josh Billings

RememberYouWrongNobodyForget

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Jonathan Ive

StrongThinkRememberCountrySay

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

Donna Brazile

MotherGirlAgeMeEgoEarly

I let my people know that I'd love to work with Ryan Coogler one day because I thought he's just one of those truly auteur directors of our time. And I was just like, 'I want to work with a guy like that.' I think he has such a great understanding and distinct voice of his own.

Winston Duke

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