It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

Maggie Smith

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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket... by Maggie Smith

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

granny buckets kicks

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

shining gone rain

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely. by Maggie Smith

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

celia johnson lovely

I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

stars jobs thinking

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast. by Maggie Smith

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

hopeless knows past

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime las... by Maggie Smith

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

fifty believe past

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand. by Maggie Smith

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

very-nice nice

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are. by Maggie Smith

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

late

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

brother two years

I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

grateful roles thinking

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

drama school thinking

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

presses asks people

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

enough-time pressure thinking

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much... by Maggie Smith

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

elderly people thinking

I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.

potters long thinking

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a... by Maggie Smith

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

want people

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

couple writing years

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written... by Maggie Smith

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

parks film done

They say this is the last one, and I can't see how it could go on, i mean, (my character) certainly can't keep going.

entertainment

I mean, (my character) certainly can't keep going, to my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s.

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