Maggie Smith quote: "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."

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
MAGGIE SMITH

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because t...
MAGGIE SMITH

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, ...
MAGGIE SMITH

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
MAGGIE SMITH

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the diseas...
MAGGIE SMITH

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great...
MAGGIE SMITH

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

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and deare...
MAGGIE SMITH

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w...
MAGGIE SMITH

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's...
MAGGIE SMITH

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself,...
MAGGIE SMITH

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't th...
MAGGIE SMITH

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than on...
MAGGIE SMITH

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

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
MAGGIE SMITH

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having...
MAGGIE SMITH

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe t...
MAGGIE SMITH

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

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

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
MAGGIE SMITH

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it&#...
MAGGIE SMITH

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
MAGGIE SMITH

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the...
MAGGIE SMITH

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
MAGGIE SMITH

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are th...
MAGGIE SMITH

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt...
MAGGIE SMITH

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can ...
MAGGIE SMITH

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it...
MAGGIE SMITH

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

Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in tr...
MAGGIE SMITH

The store is Kathryn. Bright, fun and beautiful.
MAGGIE SMITH

It's a constant battle. We're constantly fighting it from both ends.
MAGGIE SMITH

I think I was just very odd.
MAGGIE SMITH

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.'...
MAGGIE SMITH

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered le...
MAGGIE SMITH

I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent m...
MAGGIE SMITH

She was able to maintain her legs, and she shot the ball (well) the entire game.
MAGGIE SMITH

We walked in last September and told her we had been beige people, but we wanted to rejuvenate our h...
MAGGIE SMITH

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

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

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

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among t...
MAGGIE SMITH

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's ...
MAGGIE Q

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER

I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
MAGGIE WILLIAMS

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from po...
MAGGIE WILLIAMS

I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupa...
MAGGIE WILLIAMS

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even...
MAGGIE WILLIAMS

If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali cloth...
MAGGIE WILLIAMS

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a Ne...
MAGGIE WHEELER

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they shoul...
MAGGIE WHEELER

I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a...
MAGGIE WHEELER

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of ad...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER

My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about...
MAGGIE WHEELER

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn&#...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chic...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to g...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a ma...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually tho...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were li...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in tru...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is bea...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relations...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for bein...
MAGGIE SIFF

I so never went through a bad-girl period.
MAGGIE SIFF

I was an English major in college!
MAGGIE SIFF

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
MAGGIE SIFF

A day on a film set is maddening.
MAGGIE SIFF

Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
MAGGIE SHAYNE

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a r...
MAGGIE SHAYNE

To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wond...
MAGGIE SHAYNE

How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead e...
MAGGIE ROWE

I have slavishly dedicated myself to the construction of an image that nobody but me sees. Nobody bu...
MAGGIE ROWE

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
MAGGIE ROWE

I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. B...
MAGGIE ROWE

In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I ...
MAGGIE ROWE

My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all reli...
MAGGIE ROWE

I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so ba...
MAGGIE ROWE

When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed...
MAGGIE ROWE

I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
MAGGIE ROWE

My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I...
MAGGIE ROWE

I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering o...
MAGGIE ROWE

Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the ...
MAGGIE ROWE

Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For ye...
MAGGIE ROWE

There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of hi...
MAGGIE ROWE

The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave...
MAGGIE ROWE

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onio...
MAGGIE ROWE

'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show....
MAGGIE ROWE

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
MAGGIE Q

The student will try to defy the master. Always.
MAGGIE Q

I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think ...
MAGGIE Q

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.
MAGGIE Q

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a l...
MAGGIE Q

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done th...
MAGGIE Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush o...
MAGGIE Q

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' ...
MAGGIE Q

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, a...
MAGGIE Q

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don&#...
MAGGIE Q

I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup ...
MAGGIE Q

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
MAGGIE Q

I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. ...
MAGGIE Q

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies wit...
MAGGIE Q

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very...
MAGGIE Q

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know i...
MAGGIE Q

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I w...
MAGGIE Q

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
MAGGIE Q

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but al...
MAGGIE Q

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot...
MAGGIE Q

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and the...
MAGGIE Q

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - ...
MAGGIE Q

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a li...
MAGGIE LAWSON

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
MAGGIE LAWSON

William Shatner just reeks of cool.
MAGGIE LAWSON

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re...
MAGGIE LAWSON

Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
MAGGIE LAWSON

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
MAGGIE KUHN

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
MAGGIE KUHN

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
MAGGIE KUHN

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
MAGGIE KUHN

Few people know how to be old.
MAGGIE KUHN

The challenges our state faces must be met with the best solutions and ideas we can muster - and goo...
MAGGIE HASSAN

Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flo...
MAGGIE HASSAN

In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth...
MAGGIE HASSAN

We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the ve...
MAGGIE HASSAN

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
MAGGIE HASSAN

Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
MAGGIE HASSAN

I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create m...
MAGGIE HASSAN

As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
MAGGIE HASSAN

I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would m...
MAGGIE HASSAN

Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it...
MAGGIE HASSAN

Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
MAGGIE HASSAN

It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in b...
MAGGIE HASSAN

We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
MAGGIE HASSAN

New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can...
MAGGIE HASSAN

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
MAGGIE HASSAN

New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that cr...
MAGGIE HASSAN

I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti...
MAGGIE HASSAN

We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
MAGGIE HASSAN

You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and fi...
MAGGIE HASSAN

I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that ...
MAGGIE HASSAN

When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well a...
MAGGIE HASSAN

When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are ...
MAGGIE HASSAN

As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to r...
MAGGIE HASSAN

It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
MAGGIE HASSAN

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally impor...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the ...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. I...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Some...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, ...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly bu...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you'...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling th...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me co...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

Having an education is invaluable.
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challe...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the l...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion maj...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communica...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent,...
MAGGIE GRACE

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one ...
MAGGIE GRACE

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
MAGGIE GRACE

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
MAGGIE GRACE

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flav...
MAGGIE GRACE

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
MAGGIE GRACE

I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some b...
MAGGIE GRACE

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
MAGGIE GRACE

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are an...
MAGGIE GRACE

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip...
MAGGIE GRACE

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very...
MAGGIE GRACE

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii...
MAGGIE GRACE

I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We ...
MAGGIE GRACE

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye...
MAGGIE GRACE

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
MAGGIE GRACE

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there&...
MAGGIE GRACE

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
MAGGIE GRACE

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedic...
MAGGIE GRACE

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly ...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER

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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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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