“I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's od...” — Maggie Smith Quote

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

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

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. If my parents hadn't been in the business, we would have them anyway, as pets. And my cousin Richard is a jockey.

People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.