Maggie Smith Quotes
5 quotations by Maggie Smith
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. |
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. |
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. I did Desdemona (at the National, opposite Olivier) with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. But then everyone was terrified of Larry. |
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. |
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. |