Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
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May 26, 2022 · For six seasons and two movies, Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, was both the emotional and comedic center of “Downton Abbey.” The deadpan matriarch of the...
- On romance. “I do think a woman’s place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there.” “In my day, a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.”
- On technology and change. “First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.” “What is a weekend?” [On the new telephone] “Is this an instrument of communication or torture?”
- On life. “Life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.” “No life appears rewarding if you think about it too much.” “Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.”
- On growing old. “Just because you’re an old widow, I see no necessity to eat off a tray.” “At my age, one must ration one’s excitement.” “All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve, first one and then the next and then the next, until at last we die.”
May 23, 2022 · In Downton Abbey: A New Era, Smith's Violet succumbs to the terminal illness that she revealed at the conclusion of the 2019 film, saying goodbye to the Crawley family with her...
May 29, 2022 · Maggie Smith has played Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, over six seasons of Downton Abbey and in two film adaptations. How very Dowager of her. And yet, she...
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Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003).
May 22, 2022 · In honor of all of Violet's delicious scenes (and her treasure trove of endlessly quotable bon mots), here are Maggie Smith's most memorable moments on Downton Abbey.
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May 20, 2022 · Maggie Smith's dowager countess acquires a villa in the South of France, so the Downton household goes on a field trip in Downton Abbey: A New Era.
