I think a sense of humor is invaluable wherever you are, I suppose, but it certainly does help on a movie.
Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?
Known for her tell-it-like-it-is characters, Dame Maggie Smith was a household name both on screen and the stage.
Something you'd like to say, dear?
Oh, there are several things I would like to say.
Her storied career earned her two Academy Awards, four Emmys, a Tony, and a Damehood from Queen Elizabeth II.
I think I have been terribly lucky.
Smith made her theater debut in the early 1950s at just 17 years old.
I went to school in Oxford, and they started a drama school at Oxford, and I was just working on stage management and playing maids.
A few years later, she began taking on small film and TV roles.
