Maggie Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

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

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

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

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

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.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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.

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.