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I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith. -- Lesley Nicol
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life. -- Allen Leech
Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget. -- Michelle Dockery
I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring. -- Zoe Tapper
I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go. -- Diablo Cody
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say. -- Tom Felton
Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive. -- Elizabeth Taylor
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! -- Arthur Miller
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) -- Tennessee Williams
You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is. -- Steven Shainberg
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. -- Dani Shapiro
The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga. -- Jaime Hernandez
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995. -- Charles Jencks
I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. -- Jim Butcher
Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour. -- Samantha Bond
Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly. -- Emma Thompson
I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really. -- Rupert Grint
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down. -- Tamara Tunie
There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive. -- Imogen Poots
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. -- John Lydon
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going. -- Robert Crais
I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were. -- Cate Blanchett
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Brenton Thwaites
When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them. -- Keeley Hawes
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
I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you. -- Allen Leech
Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes. -- Michael Palin
I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
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
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best. -- Maggie Q
What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. -- Julian Fellowes
Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise. -- Simone Elkeles
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.-Maggie -- Sarah Dessen
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door. -- Tennessee Williams
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. -- George Eliot
I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either. -- Nan Goldin
As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. -- Caitlin Moran
What would you like? (Maggie) I don't care. I'll eat anything not Tylenol or chocolate. (Wren) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are. -- Kent Haruf
So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It's just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go -- Thrity Umrigar
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart. -- Kim Gordon
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. -- Nora Roberts
Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off -- D. J. MacHale
Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not. -- Sydney Strand
They came together, they loved and they married. In innocence, and never dreaming how courageous they were, they started a new life together and a new generation of their own. -Maggie Now -- Betty Smith
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises. -- Maria Semple
Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie -- Susane Colasanti
Maggie squeezes my hand. It's a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first. -- Simone Elkeles
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it. -- Nora Roberts
Not that I've ever feared a fight or backed down from one "?(Wren) That's the truth. I swear he's half beta fish. He'd fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening? -- Mira Grant
Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987. -- Ally Carter
One of my favorite comics is Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment. -- Cliff Chiang
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers. -- George Eliot
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
Alright, well, we're going to go tell Maggie's father. Kyle came forward to inspect Caleb's face closelyDude, what are you doing?Just memorising your pretty face before it gets all mangled.Caleb laughed and shoved Kyle who laughed tooShut up, man. -- Shelly Crane
Then what good is he? (Maggie) I ask myself every friggin' day exactly what you did. What good am I? The answer is simple. There's nothing good about me and I like it that way. Pride myself on it, in fact. (Savitar) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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. -- George Eliot
Yeah, I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see your face when I changed over. (Wren) No, you don't. I assure you, it wasn't pretty. (Maggie) There's never anything about you that isn't pretty, Maggie. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. (Wren) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff. -- Jackee Harry
This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird. -- Sarah Dessen
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?" What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best. -- Maggie Q
I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with. -- Ashley Jensen
Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality. -- Julian Fellowes
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer. -- Eula Biss
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger. -- Jane Seymour
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart. -- Matt Groening
Dr. Maggie DiNome was given the Duke Award for her tireless efforts and stellar contributions to the eradication of cancer. But unfortunately my weight seems much more important to some of you. While I will admit the dress didn't photograph as well as it did in my kitchen, I will also admit I felt very pretty. In fact, I feel beautiful. -- Pink
As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
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
I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way. -- Maggie Q

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