Maggie Smith Quotes

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I don't want to die an old lady.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

My father passed away at, like, 87.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.