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Maggie Smith Biography

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career on stage, film and television spanning over 66 years. Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britain's most recognizable actresses. A prominent figure in British culture for six decades, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for services to the performing arts, and received the Companion of Honour from the Queen in 2014 for services to drama.

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Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.

Anyway, Drama, Old, Play, Reach, School

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.

Enjoy, Kids, Mother, Spend, Way

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

Believe, Fifty, Past, Reckoned, Till

There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no one tells you how to answer the kids' questions in the backseat of the car when they want to know what the world is for or where they came from or why any of this is happening.

Car, Prepare, Responsibility, Things, World

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

Buckets, Granny, Kick, Kicks, Point

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Age, Girl, Giving, Old, Putting, Young

I'm just glad to get any role. . . the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

Actually, Asked, Grateful, Person, Roles, Thinking

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

Coming, Couple, Like, Writing, Years

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.

Actor, Actors, Emotion, Want, Words, Writers

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,you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

Course, Gone, Hard, Rain, Shining

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

Class, Defeatist, Maggie, Middle

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

Difference, Differences, Loneliness, Solitude

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

Escape, Light, Open, Shadow, Thing

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.

Brother, Maybe, Mean, Thinking, Way

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

Funny, Late, Life, Pigeonholed

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

Fast, Hopeless, Know, Knows, Past, Time

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.

Amusing, Happy, Maggie, Side, Sides

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

Head, Maggie, Performances, Stage

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, Fairly, Successful, Think, Thinking

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.

Actor, Actors, Invisible, Kind, Nothing, Thread

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