Maggie Smith Quotes
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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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Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in transition
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I love acting, I'm privileged to do it and I don't know where I'd be without it.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.
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Performing in the London West End production of "The Lady from Dubuque".
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One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still 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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I still miss him so much it's ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. Even in my dream I kept saying to him, 'You are dead. You can't be here.' [on her second husband Bev]
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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'm not tired of London yet and I've not seen Naples.
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I still miss him (husband Bev) so much it's ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. Even in my dream I kept saying to him, 'You are dead. You can't be here.'
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
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Currently resting and recovering from ill health, but soon to start work on 'From Time to Time', which is based on Lucy Boston's book 'The Children of Green Knowe'.
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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 believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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Jude is the most incredibly level person. Generous, understanding. All the things I'd have to work very hard at, Jude is like that all the time. I would love to be like that. And working with Jude you have to try to remember that you ought to be like that.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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She was able to maintain her legs, and she shot the ball (well) the entire game.
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But there was an incredible nervousness about him. You couldn't do this, couldn't do that. Mustn't ride a bike, you'd be bound to fall off. Couldn't swim, you'd most certainly drown.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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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.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. I did Desdemona [at the National, opposite Olivier] with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. But then everyone was terrified of Larry
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It's a constant battle. We're constantly fighting it from both ends.
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What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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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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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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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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Athletically, they had a slight edge on us. We did what we could to put ourselves in a position to win.
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I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
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We walked in last September and told her we had been beige people, but we wanted to rejuvenate our house.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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