Maggie Quotes

• I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

  Tennessee Williams

  Cages, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955)

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• maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Beach, Stars, Home

  E. E. Cummings (1983). “Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Maggie Smith

  Class, Middle, Dear

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• It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Moving, Next Move, Events

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

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Careers, Pigeons

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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

  Maggie Smith

  Motherhood, Upset, Toby

  "You have to laugh". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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

  Maggie Smith

  Believe, Past, Fifty

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• 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.

  Maggie Smith

  Home, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Maggie Smith

  Actors, Kind, Invisible

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• Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

  Lady Violet

  Prayer, Party, Awkward

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• 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.

  Maggie Smith

  Actors, Want, Emotion

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

  Maggie Smith

  Elements, Aspect, Physicality

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• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

  Maggie Smith

  Loneliness, Differences, Solitude

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• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  Maggie Smith

  Cancer, Want, Peculiar

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• 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.

  Maggie Smith

  Sides, Amusing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Maggie Smith

  Elderly, Fool, Tolerate

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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

  Maggie Smith

  Stage, Performances

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Elderly, People

  "Quartet - Dame Maggie Smith interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Doors

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• Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

  D. J. MacHale

  Scare, Why Not, Want

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “The Black”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Two, Wrens

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.196, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

  Jodi Picoult

  True Love, Thinking, Months

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

  Melissa Febos

  Writing, Nelson, Better Than You

  Source: therumpus.net

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