Maggie Smith Quotes

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.