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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

  Maggie Smith

  Loneliness, Differences, Solitude

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

  Lady Violet

  Prayer, Party, Awkward

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Doors

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• Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Cutting, Fog, Feelings

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• As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Ballerina, Former

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• So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Years, Odd, Casts

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

  Stanley Crawford

  Thinking, Play, Bird

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.86, UNM Press

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• In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Home, People

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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