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.
Maggie SmithI like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Maggie SmithI'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.
Maggie SmithWe can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.
Maggie Smith