#be

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#different #gets #just #people #people say

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#difference #loneliness #solitude

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

#anything #because #find #funny #happy

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

— Maggie Smith

#believe #fifty #had #i #i am

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

— Maggie Smith

#been #elderly #films #i #made

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #assumed #because #been #benign

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#believe #go #i #know #like

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

— Maggie Smith

#being #elemental #elements #i #like

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 #fools #good #i #i am

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

#been #differently #dinner #down #eating