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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 28
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Ilford
London
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith
Margaret Natalie Smith
Dame Maggie Natalie Smith
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I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.
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It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.
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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 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 just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before Harry Potter and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.
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I'd done Gosford Park, a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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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 don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.
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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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I'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.
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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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If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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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.
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I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.
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There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.
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It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.
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