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- Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Allen Leech review Maggie Smith’s most iconic moments in Downton Abby. From her offhanded compliments to her jaded views on womanhood, they break down how Maggie’s character, Violet Crawley, is the perfect encapsulation of early 20th century British aristocracy.
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Oh come on! Maggie Smith's best line in the entire series is in the Christmas special of season 2 when Mary dumps Sir Richard and he says, "I'm leaving in the morning. I doubt we'll meet again". The Dowager: "Do you promise?" Absolute classic.
YES
Yes!
Agreed.
Yes
I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED THAT
I love the scene in season 1 when Violet goes to Matthew's office and has trouble with the chair she sits in. Matthew tells her it was designed by Thomas Jefferson and she says, 'why must every day involve a fight with an American?'
They are all splendid persons! Unforgettable....!
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Brilliant 🤣
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"I'm so looking forward to seeing your mother again. When I'm with her I'm reminded of the virtues of the English."
"But isn't she American? "
" Exactly"
Crassus how did they miss that lol
@Crassus I know! That is a great quote indeed.
oh yes!! haha
My favorite line. Gets me every time...and I'm American😂😂😂😂
Yes that's the best one in my opinion aswell.
One of my favorites is when Matthew breaks a vase on a fight with Carlisle and she is like “its alright, i’ve hated this vase for 50 years”
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We have the same name lol
nah nah she said "I've hated that vase for half a century" lmao
I've watched this probably a dozen times and I never tire of watching these three "BFFs" together. Them watching themselves in the clips feels like a trip down memory lane. ☺💟
Omg I totally cracked up when that happened
“Oh I’m so sorry...I thought you were a waiter.”
My favorite one. 🤣
That 'Get me a drink' skit is the funniest thing. I just crack up every time I see it. LOL
Me tooo😂😂😂
Sorry, could someone explain that one for me? English isn't my native language but I like all the jokes except that one, which I don't really get (seems like she just didn't see, who was behind her)
The mistaking her son for a waiter is my favorite, too. I'm not sure how to explain it though. Except it was funny how the Earl would be assumed part of the staff, whether intentionally or jokingly.
XSylvanosX it’s the first time Lord Grantham wears a tuxedo (instead of tails) for dinner. She’s mocking him for doing so, as a tux would be considered informal back in those days and social class.
I loved her relationship with isabelle over the series:
"How you hate to be wrong"
"I wouldn't know. I'm not familiar with the sensation"
😂
my favorite come back!
Isobel but yeah
@@EzraDair precisely.
No one else could have done her part. only Maggie Smith.....loved her in this
@@EzraDair oh well tf
I expected them to include “w-what is a weekend?” 😂
@@pyrosymphonyfireworksdesig5690 the chair sceene almost killed me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me, too! Loved that line!
Yes! And, “must every day begin with a fight with an American”
Forrest Gabriel Cruz “no, no... I’m a good sailor” I was CRYING 😂
That one is my absolute favorite 😂
My favorite Maggie Smith line: “It’s not like we can have him assassinated…I suppose.”
Best line in the series!
Definitely!🤣
Can u tell me in which episode it is in...
Oh wow! Did you ever watch the TV series "Taxi" with Danny DeVito? He goes to meet "Zena" his girlfriend's mother. (Zena, played by Rhea Pearlman is Danny DeVito's real life wife since the 80's btw). And when "Zena" is out of the room the mother says to "Louie" (Danny DeVito) I can have you killed! They do that you know? Ha ha ha
Priceless!
‘Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would *dream* of dying in someone else’s house’ (On the scandalous demise of Mr Pamuk 😳)
What she says is always true and what the others are too polite to say. She reminds me of my late mother
M Scott I love her. You know exactly where you stand with her. I like knowing where I stand with people lolol
@@fairlyvague82 So do I. It's a rare level of honesty (at least it's rare these days,) and a typical aristocratic trait.
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Omg we forget about this jewel 💎🤣🤣🤣
In the movie she has a great line
"I don't argue, I explain"
I screamed. i adore her. xD
I love her lines so much
They made a t-shirt already...the best
She's the best! Hahahah
Ive been saying that for years!
"A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears"...I always loved that one
Need to remember that one... I think it would give me tremendous courage when I'm among people who can't deal with/show emotions
Now THAT would be SOOO dope
She is wise indeed.
Stiff upper lip wut!
That one's my favourite too!
Matthews mom: I’ll take that as a compliment
Dame Maggie: I must’ve said it wrong” 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Lol
Especially since she takes everything as a compliment herself! 😆
FYI her name is Dame Penelope Wilton
That’s my favorite line of hers for sure!
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Nobody does a disapproving face like Maggie Smith.
She's got it down to a fine art.
I think she lives her role. As she did Lady Trentham in Gosford Park
Has anybody seen her in first wives club. She put down Goldie Hawn who’d had collagen in her lips. Your LIPS with the tilted head
Have any of you seen her in The Lady in the van? She plays a really down and out old woman in that story, but even as that character can still deliver crushing lines to people around her. I wonder what she's like in real life.
Maggie Smith is one of the great character actresses GB has, just like Judi Dench, and I really hope she will be around for some time still. 🥰
The grand dame of Disapproval!!
She's great in Sister Act.
Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton have such witty dialogue and such great chemistry I would watch a whole movie of just them on screen
Mahaillie.....Smith is, of course, magnificent, but Wilton, one of the very greatest , subtlest, actresses of our time, is also formidable. What a joy to bring them together.
@@2eleven48 I liked when Penelope as Isobel and Maggie as Violet were having a wit throwing contest, especially when Isobel said to Violet, "Did you remember to take your pills?" as if Violet was becoming forgetful or something. Maggie as Violet must have had so much fun doing those lines as she did in almost every episode of that show. She's a hoot.
If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t eat or drink with Maggie scenes.
@@CJ-im2uu I have seen the movie, and it was great. Maggie, of course, had the best lines again. I laughed so many times when she said them. Now that the movie is doing well at the box office in many countries, there has to be a sequel in the works since there are some storylines that were not finished yet.
The two ladies are great together … and Isobel holds her own with the Dowager. Some of the looks she gives the Dowager are wonderful.
This whole promoting campaign for the movie has transformed into a Maggie Smith stan series and I'm here for it.
Just to be a downer, my favourite Maggie moment is her entering the house after Sybil's death. Her conversation with Carson, her near-breakdown, and then pulling it together as she rights herself and walks on. Truly amazing acting.
YES!!
I agree. That moment sticks out for me too. It’s very subtle yet powerful and touching because in a few seconds she conveys an enormous world of emotion. Just masterful acting.
Yes!! I break down every time I watch it
You sir are a quite good connesseur of marvelous english acting.
That scene was soooo well done. Not many words but the expressions and body language.. you could feel everything!
"If I ever did search for logic, I should not search for it among the English upper class". Ooh self-burn, those are rare.
sound_and_fury you can‘t burn the divine. aka maggie smith and every character of her is definitely immune to such things
i understood that reference
noice
Peralta!!
Smurt
NINE-NINE!
"I am a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose." BOSS LADY... I stan!!!
my god people really DO talk like this
My favorite: “Theres nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.” ❤️
I laughed so hard at that one
Granny would have loved lockdown lol
She did tell Robert at one point that "I have plenty of friends I don't like"
It took me YEARS to start watching it! I thought it was just another stuffy British period piece. BOY was I WRONG!! It was SPLENDID! ALL the actors were SUPERB!! I couldn't stop watching it! 👍😊
better late than never!
This was me! Just finished it two weeks ago! And I’ve been rewatching it! Maggie Smith is my spirit animal
Watching the series again. Definitely a favorite.
I have addictively watched 3 seasons within a week. I highly regret it now as it deserves to be taken in slowly but I simply could not stop!
I didn't see the interest when it was originally on. Last year I finally watched - LOVED IT - and am now watching the whole series again~!
I love the fact that they all reacted to Sybil's appearance the same way as the audience would.
I’ll always love the bit with the newspaper man (forgot his name) “I’ll be leaving in the morning” “Do you promise?” 😂😂😂
Maura Van Heghe ....that IS the BEST....EV-ah....;)!!!
Sir Richard Carlisle
He also says something like, "We'll never meet again."
Sir Richard! My favorite is when they are playing charades and he asks her if she enjoys playing games in which the player must appear ridiculous. And she says, "Sir Richard, LIFE is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous." I think of that at least once a day- It's so true!
@@tracy8359 and violet says "do you promise?" 😂. She's the best!
“I wonder your halo doesn't grow heavy. It must be like wearing a tiara around the clock.” Priceless.
I literally just finished watching that episode 😂 hilarious 💓
That is my favorite line 😂😂
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I watched that episode literally today
This one 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Are you quite finished?"
Dame Maggie Smith is a BOSS🧐
good hehe
"Does it ever get cold on moral highground?" - i expected this one :D
Yeah!
This is one of my favs🤣🤣
Yes! Came here to write this one. Brilliant
This one is Gold!!!
My favorite show. Maggie Smith is a riot. The "what is a weekend?" comment and the look on her face while the family is having dinner made me laugh until tears were running down my cheeks. Bravo!
Mine too!
"Is this an instrument of communication or torture?" My favourite scene for sure.
I feel like that with computers and a new version of phones.
and then proceeds to yell, "SHRIMPIE??!"
same here
@@katragaddaalekhya4811 How can that aristocratic, handsome man, head of household go around being called "Shrimpie!" Ha ha ha
It’s SOOOO weird seeing them in modern clothes and hairstyles😭😂
And Tom looks awesome with that haircut!
And now I realize that it must have taken some effort to make Laura Carmichael look like the Ugly Duckling (I had not seen "the real her" before).
Barbara T yes! He is fineeeeee
Yes Laura Carmichael is so pretty IRL.
Lol yeah it is 😂
Robert: "I can handle her." The Dowager, suddenly appearing, "Well you must have learned to very recently"
I remember laughing hysterically when she said to Robert "I thought you were a waiter" 😂😂😂😂 What is Downtown Abbey without her...
No harm meant, and I like most of the royals, but when I read the announcement of a new royal engagement today, I must admit my instant reaction was to hear the Dowager Countess in my head, saying - "In times like these, you could probably find an Italian who isn't too picky."
OMG, that's hysterical -- making the connection to Princess Beatrice! Thanks so much for making this connection I missed. (I'm American.)
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Brilliant. Laughed out loud.🤣🤣🤣
my favourite is the scene where the foreign ambassadors son dies in their house and when Maggie Smith was called in she says "ofcourse it would happen to a foreigner, no British will ever think of dying in someone else's house, especially someone they don't even know" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Reading this I am laughing way too hard. The audacity of the dead 😭😭🤣🤣🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
My fav line by the dowager wasn't mentioned in this video! I don't remember who she said this to, but: "you're entitled to argue with me, you're just not entitled to win!"
Scott FoxL Rosamund!
It was said to Isabelle at the dining table over the hospital row…
Hahaha this one is such a good one! The doctor's face😭🤣🤣🤦🏾♀️
I use "Vulgarity is no substitution for wit." In conversation in my best stuffy British accent.
Me too! A great and useful line. 😊
My favorite too!
I love that one.
I thought of that line every time we Americans were graced by trumps intellectual largesse
The best Maggie Smith line of the entire series: Talking about Lady Mary possibly getting married with her scandalous reputation: "Every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden."
They forgot “I’ve hated that vase for 50 years” “do you promise” and “what is a weekend?”
Honestly, Maggie is so savage.
*We stan*
I though it was a typo, but ove seen it three times now. What does "stan" mean?
@@Rollwithit699 to stan = to religiously support
@@Rollwithit699 It makes no sense to me. I speak English and I'll leave it that way.
@@Rollwithit699 It’s slang for stalker/fan. Stan.
One of my favorite interactions between Violet and Isabelle was when they were going downstairs and Violet said she hadn't been down there in 20 years and Isabelle said don't forget your passport
😂👍🏼
One road trip I was 1/2 hour out of town when I realized this very fact. A hasty retreat!
“SHRIMPIE!?!” I was always amazed at how Laura ever managed a successful take of that telephone scene 😂😂 and Michelle is just such an absolute dream 😍
the funniest thing for me was when she asked if any of the jazz band members know what song they were playing 😂
yeah! i remember that! it was so hilarious!
Oh my gosh yes me too 😂😂
I can't believe they didn't get them to comment on the swivel chair scene with Mathew! That scene always has me in stitches!
"I'm a good sailor" 😂 love it
@@littlejannacz5199 "Why does every day involve a fight with an American? No no, I'm a good sailor!" One of my most favorite scenes EVER.
The first scene that made me tear up because I was laughing so hard.
Yeees! I watch that one again all the time! It was so unexpected, imo.
@@ArmednotTriggered just PRICELESS!
“I’ll take that as a compliment!”
“I must’ve said it wrong”
Gets me every time 😂
I remember when Laura was visiting Haiti, it was a real privilege to be her translator ! She is a very humble person !
Thank you Laura for your support to Haiti 🇭🇹 through HHA.
"Why must everyday include a fight with an American" lol love that❤
Maggie Smith is a national treasure, folks. These are all great ones. The "I thought you were the waiter" when his lordship doesn't have tails on is hysterical.
I'm sad they didn't do the one where Tom asks her to dance and she says "I know I can trust you to steer"
Aha, thx, Nauman, that got by me but I do remember her saying that to him. I just didn't make the chauffeur connection.
I one I love the most is when Mosley has the rash on his hands and Isobel thinks she knows what it is. She lords her knowledge over Violet but Violet realises what the rash is and in front of the Doctor, Mosley and Isobel, tells Mosley what to do. Violet leaves and her expression is hilarious. She can hardly contain her glee that she had put Isobel in her place.
My favorite one (idk which season) is when the mother's mother comes to visit and Violet says "I'm so looking forward to seeing your mother again, she reminds me of the virtues of the English."
When someone replies with .. "isn't she American?" she says "Yes exactly."
The absolute shaaaddeeee😭😭🤣🤣🤣
When you realise maggie smith was just born very few years after the time the series takes place in (1912 to 1927 and maggie smith was born in 1934) just mindblowing and maybe very nice for her to see a world again she once lived in
I've been rewatching Downton Abbey over and over the last few months. I lose myself in the series since my depression is HORRIBLE. I adore Maggie Smith ❣️ She is perfect for the part of Lady Grantham 🥰 I wish more episodes would be written before we lose Maggie.
Hey how are you?
Bless you! Add Brideshead Revisited to your watch list if you’ve not seen it. 🌹
Frankly - whenever the Dowager says something - anything - it's a quote to remember. I just love her character.
She has so many great lines and she nails them every time
"I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose".
I love Maggie Smith, she's a class actress which is rare these days. I wish the writer of Downton Abbey would take us back in time to the Edwardian era when Maggie's charector was young... it would be fabulous with Russia and all... and the Edwardians were so OTT and eccentric!
Violet wasn't an Edwardian, she was young in the Victorian age..... I think her trip to Russia was when P Alfred Married a Russian royal
@@glen7318 Actually you're right, Violet visited Russia, where she met Prince Igor Kuragin, at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1874. It was still an era of extravigance for the upper classes.
@@glen7318 She refers to herself as an Edwardian.
It is a good dream. But I have to doubt that its feasible to do Violet without Maggie. I think anyone else in the part would be a disappointment. Some of the best things in life are not eternal. We must learn to love the moment.
Its so refreshing to see modern day actors be so classy, mature and well spoken in real life.
I KNEW Laura (Edith) was about to crack up when the Dowager was trying to use the phone 😂😂😂
"SHRIMPIE?!"
Maggie Smith is so iconic GOD
Elle est une de mes actrices favorites !
crying atm; She's not God and her acting is quite extraordinary but she is not an icon.
@@zeebee9356 shhh let people enjoy things
I read this comment with Jongdae’s voice in my head and now I can’t read it any other way.
Zee Bee are you ok
My favorite line is in the first season one of the first episodes where Matthew is talking about working during the week and caring for and managing Downton on the weekends and Violet says in a perplexed tone “What’s a weekend” that was the moment I fell in love with the show 😂😂
Same here. Loved it. Xx
They didn't show the best one: "What is a Weekend?"
I was waiting for that one lol.
Yes, that was great, too! And the faces of the others!!
I think one of the reasons why they didn't include that one is that it was a genuine reaction as in she honestly didn't know what a weekend was. Where as all the other lines are of her own creation/wit/opinion.
Allen’s “Yes, I know” was very cute. 😆
Amazing how Edith was played to be the "ugly" sister when the actress herself is quite beautiful!😍
I agree
Agree very good looking
Can’t take me eyes of off Mary.Now thats a Beauty
Not at all
Yes, she is quite beautiful !!
I love seeing the girls be so nice to each other, they truly are vicious to each other on the show.
Awww Sybil, little Sybil XD
"I always wanted to use that spell!"
No no no....different part of England
The scene with Lord Grantham and Tom not having the evening shirts, with the quips of The Dowager and Mrs Levinson were absolutely hilarious!
Maggie Smith is a tremendous actress and I love how she portrayed Violet Crawley.
You have absolutely NO idea how much we enjoyed this. I've watched it twice. I get addicted to the personalities in the room with me. I enjoy the costumes and the levels of snobbish and cruel reality of real families. I loved watching the evolution of time and inventions that changes the resistance of change. Loved it.thank you for starring in it.
We need more Allen Leach doing impressions of the cast!!😂
My two favourite scenes of Maggie's is when she first uses the telephone in season 2 and when she first runs into Shirley MacLaine in season 3 - putting them together was brilliant!
Zach Pennell: And the way she was acting with the artificial light!
'SHRIMPIE?! IT'S AUNT VIOLET!!!'
“Does it ever get cold up there….. on the moral high ground?”…. Brilliant!
It is SO WEIRD to hear Michelle Dockery’s réal accent, and not the perfect English accent of Lady Mary
It changes her voice a lot
I’m always impressed by the English actors capacity to change their accent
I know they learn how to do it as it is an absolute requirement in that country, but still
blood dragon no it isn’t a requirements
It's barely any different. How odd to point out.
Mary's boyfriend scene with Matthew on the end of season 2
he said "I think we won't be seeing each other anymore"
the dowager says "do you promise"
I MEAN KMONNNNN
this is one of the besf characters ever portraited
I absolutely love the Dowager Countess! Her comedy timing is perfect! She makes this show what it is! 😂
I just want dame Maggie to be my grandma. What a treasure. The rest of the Downton cast are equally incredible.
DAME MAGGIE SMITH: INTERNATIONAL TREASURE!
My favorite was when haughty Ian Glenn was Mary's new suitor after she had turned down Matthew. You could tell they were ill-suited for each other even though he had been knighted, and was independently wealthy. He threatens Mary by saying that he is never coming back again, and Granny says, "Oh good, is that a promise?" I love Ian Glenn and about fell off the couch laughing!
Glen was asked in an interview about working with Dame Maggie. He confessed he did his best to remain under her radar. I had a whopping crush on his Jorah Mormont. That made me very unsympathetic toward Khaleesi. He was far less appealing as Mary's fiance. I had to wonder how she ever considered it.
My favourite Line Maggie ever uttered on Downton Abbey is "I never argue, I explain" 🤣😍🤣
allen leech is too handsome, i can't take it
For sure! Boyishly handsome. Like a warm cupcake. One of the best looking actors working in cinema today.
Loved him in Rome too
Yesssss! My favorite character is Tom
Laura Carmichael modern day hair is so dreamy! She looks stunning here
She's the light of the show.. Can't stop laughing everytime see her act.. 😂😂
"Julio, it's time.."
Julio:"Yes I know"
I think the only time she ever panicked,
"Sprat! You're losing you sense of the appropriate! You're losing your sense of occAAAsion!"
The “pardon?” Story is hilarious!!! 2:50
Richard: "I'm leaving in the morning lady Grantham. I doubt we'll meet again"
Lady Grantham: "Do you promise?"
😭😭😭
Aw they missed my favorite!! When Sir Richard says he’s never going to see her again and she says, “Do you promise?” 😂
Wow, it's refreshing to see "Mary" and "Edith" getting along 😂
I love it when she asks Matthew "what is a weekend?" looking genuinely confused
"I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose."
“What is a ‘week end’?” 😂
But like every line is Maggie smiths best.
She’s just too amazing!
“Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s very middle class” ❤️
I want to see an Epic Rap Battle of History: Maggie Smith as the Dowager v/s Dianna Rigg as Olenna Tyrell. Screw Drake and Pusha, that would be a bloodbath.
OH MY GOD
Imagine Maggie facing Cersei. Tyrion would be screaming BOW TO MAGGIE, BOW!
Yes!
It's actually happened! They both star in 'Evil Under the Sun' as former chorus girls.
They have some brilliant lines.
Rigg: l could always kick my legs higher than you.
Smith:..... And wider...
Priceless.
@@Pdjohnners omg i was JUST about to say the exact same thing! I loved them both that movie! And the movie is brilliant And it's a Christie mystery to top it all off!
One laugh after another and these three actors - love them all - said exactly what we thought and more, of course. So glad 'Tom' was kept in the show the whole time. His character really had 'some traveling' to do - great job too!
It’s obvious how much they love Maggie Smith. I really enjoyed this video.
Maggie Smith is simply brilliant and a delight to watch.
It's weird seeing "Mary" laugh and smile. What an incredible talent she is to make me despise the character at times 🤣
Maggie knows how to be ruthlessly rude with classic style! She had me laughing all too long and often. You just can't help liking her. Her actions, her snobbery just everything about her. I want to be like her when I am in my 70's and beyond.
actors are as class and elegant as their characters ! That s why we love DA !
Wow, you’re all such delightful individuals it’s inspiring! And what a joy it is to hear each of you allowing the others to talk without interrupting! So rare these days.
‘Why does every day involve a fight with an American?’ (Matthew’s swivel chair 😁)