Dame Maggie Smith - Bons Mots

Tributes have been paid by the King and prime minister, as well as numerous co-stars from her long career - here are 10 of my favourite Maggie anecdotes.

“One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act and one’s still acting.” —

Dame Maggie Smith

1. Simon Callow: “Once I found myself on a plane sitting across the aisle from her and her husband, Beverley [Cross]. She told me they’d brought with them the first volume of my rather hefty newly published biography of Orson Welles. ‘We’ve checked it in…