Maggie Smith movie quotes

“- Diana Barrie: Let's do something naughty. You always think of such good naughty things to do.
- Sidney Cochran: I was naughty all day yesterday.
- Diana Barrie: Not with me, you weren't.
- Sidney Cochran: You'll just have to learn to show up on time.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“I think it's a sad loss that men have such an aptitude for love coupled with such an inability for managing it properly.”

Maggie Smith - Lily Marlowe

“- Mother Superior: She isn't a nun. Her real name is Deloris van Cartier. She witnessed a vicious murder and has been hiding in our convent.
- Choir Nun: She... she lied to us?
- Mary Patrick: She wasn't a nun?
- Mary Robert: But she made us sing so perfectly!
- Mary Patrick: Now that should have tipped us...”

Maggie Smith - Mother Superior
Ellen Albertini Dow - Choir Nun
Kathy Najimy - Mary Patrick
Wendy Makkena - Mary Robert

“I'm going to say something very rude to you: fuck you.”
Maggie Smith - Jean Horton

“Why? Why did you just let me die? I'd like to go up into heaven. An ascension, possibly. A transfiguration.”

Maggie Smith - Miss Shepherd

“In my small way I am a woman of the world. And I know where things can lead to.”
Maggie Smith - Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon

“- Jean Horton: Are you telling me to go out and smell the roses?
- Cissy Robson: Oh no. We're telling you the roses are long gone. But the chrysanthemums are magnificent.”
Maggie Smith - Jean Horton
Pauline Collins - Cissy Robson

“- Wendy Darling: Boy, why are you crying?
- Peter Banning: I don't know. A tear for every happy thought.”
Maggie Smith - Wendy Darling
Robin Williams - Peter Banning

“- Charlotte Bartlett: I would like to thank your father personally for his kindness to us.
- George Emerson: You can't. He's in his bath.”
Maggie Smith - Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon
Julian Sands - George Emerson

“- Deloris: We could pack this joint.
- Mother Superior: Through blasphemy? You have corrupted the entire choir!
- Deloris: How can you say that? I worked my butt off with these women! They've given up their free time to do this, and they're good! I mean, sister, we could, we could rock this place!
- Mother Superior: Out of the question!”

Whoopi Goldberg - Deloris
Maggie Smith - Mother Superior

“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?
- Miss Bowers: There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.”
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler
Maggie Smith - Miss Bowers

“- Diana Barrie: What's wrong with my hair? I look like I've combed it with a towel.
- Sidney Cochran: When you played Elizabeth, you looked like a warthog and you never complained once.
- Diana Barrie: That was acting. This is living. Living, I want to be beautiful.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“Inside every girl is a swan, waiting to burst out in flight.”
Maggie Smith - Minerva McGonagall

“- Jean Horton: Why do we have to get old?
- Reggie Paget: That's what people do.”
Maggie Smith - Jean Horton
Tom Courtenay - Reggie Paget

“It is so easy to dress in England. You just put on warm clothing.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie

“- Constance: He's still got that vile little dog, I see.
- Lady Sylvia: Yes, the ones we hate last forever.”
Maggie Smith - Constance Trentham
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Sylvia McCordle

“- Thetis: Hear me, vain and foolish mortal woman. You dare compare your daughter's beauty to mine and in my own sacred sanctuary? You will repent your boast and the cruel injury you have inflicted on my son, Calibos.
- Cassiopeia: Forgive. Forgive.
- Thetis: In 30 days, on the eve of the longest day of the year, your daughter Andromeda must be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Maggie Smith - Thetis
Siân Phillips - Cassiopeia

“- Professor Minerva McGonagall: Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?
- Ron Weasley: Believe me, I've been asking myself the same question for six years.”

Maggie Smith - Professor Minerva McGonagall
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“- Thetis: Once he even tried to ravish me disguised as a cuttlefish.
- Hera: Did he succeed?
- Thetis: Certainly not.
- Athena: What did you do?
- Thetis: Beat him at his own game. I simply turned myself into a shark.”

Maggie Smith - Thetis
Claire Bloom - Hera
Susan Fleetwood - Athena

“- Diana Barrie: God damn him! God damn you. God damn Oscars. God damn California! God damn everything.
- Sidney Cochran: What is it about this climate that brings out the religion in you?”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Shut up, Bowers. Just because you've got a grudge against her, or rather her father, no need to be uncivil.
- Miss Bowers: Grudge? Melhuish Ridgeway ruined my family!
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Well, you should be grateful. If he hadn't, you would have missed out on the pleasure of working for me.
- Miss Bowers: I could kill her...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler
Maggie Smith - Miss Bowers

“Americans just simply don't understand picnics!”
Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random

“- Paul Taylor: We've had a car accident, this guy needs to see a doctor.
- Meg Penny: He has something on his hand, some kind of acid, or something.
- Nurse: Does he have Blue Cross?
- Meg Penny: I don't know.
- Nurse: Medical insurance of any kind?
- Paul Taylor: Look, we don't even know who the guy is!”
Donovan Leitch Jr. - Paul Taylor
Shawnee Smith - Meg Penny
Maggie Smith - Nurse

“Max is like a little dog. He's always sniffing around where it's not polite.”

Maggie Smith - Lily Marlowe

“- Maggie Banning: But Jack says you're not the really real Wendy.
- Wendy Darling: Ahh. Well, do you see where Jack is, hmm? Well, that is the same window and this is the same room where we made up our bedtime stories about Peter and Neverland and scary old Captain Hook. And did you know? Mr. Barrie - well, Sir James, our neighbor - he loved our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amber Scott - Maggie Banning
Maggie Smith - Wendy Darling