Quotes by Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you’re suddenly in charge of other people.

Kids

Mother

Writing

Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always – when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we’d have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we’d got to about number 200-and-something and we’d run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.

Character

Children

Running

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.

Actors

Emotion

Want

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

Motherhood

Toby

Upset

Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s very middle class.

Class

Maggie

Middle

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.

Age

Grateful

Thinking

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

Believe

Fifty

Past

I don’t think films about elderly people have been made very much.

Elderly

People

Thinking

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.

Elderly

Successful

Thinking

I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it’s because my daughter is so much like me at her age. I feel like I’m reliving my own mother’s experience of raising me.

Age

Daughter

Thinking

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Acting

Actors

Age

Amusing

Asks

Aspect

Believe

Boys

Brother

Buckets

Cancer

Car

Careers

Celia

Character

Children

Class

College

Couple

Daughter

Differences

Different

Difficulty

Done

Drama

Easy

Elderly

Elements

Emotion

Enjoy

Enough Time

Ephemeral

Eras

Female

Fifty

Film

Fool

Get Better

Girl

Giving

Goes On

Gone

Granny

Grateful

Heart

Home

Honest

Hopeless

Invisible

Jobs

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Quotes by Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you’re suddenly in charge of other people.

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.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s very middle class.

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.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I don’t think films about elderly people have been made very much.

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.

I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it’s because my daughter is so much like me at her age. I feel like I’m reliving my own mother’s experience of raising me.

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