113 Quotes by Maggie Smith

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

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

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

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.

I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.