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Vote: | Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more. |
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Vote: | I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. |
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Vote: | I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect. |
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Vote: | I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity. And I thought 'that about covers it really'. |
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Vote: | I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him. |
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Vote: | I think I was just very odd. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. |
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Vote: | The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. |
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Vote: | There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk. |
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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith Cross, DBE, (born December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex), better known as Maggie Smith, is a British film, stage, and television actress. She received numerous honours throughout her career, culminating in a DBE in 1990.
She started her career at the Oxford Playhouse Theatre with Frank Shelley, and first appeared on the movie screen in 1956. In 1969 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Female Actress for her role in "California Suite".
She has been married twice, first to Robert Stephens (divorced) and then to playwright Beverley Cross (his death). She has two sons by Stephens, actors Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin.
Selected Filmography :The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969, Jean Brodie:Clash of the Titans, 1981, Thetis:A Room With a View, 1985, Charlotte Bartlett:Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, 1993, Mother Superior:The First Wives Club, 1996, Gunilla Garson Goldberg:Gosford Park, 2001, Constance, Countess of Trentham:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002, Minerva McGonagall:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004, Minerva McGonagall
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Maggie Smith".
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