Liz Smith - biography

“No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!”

“The marriage didn’t work out but the separation is great.”

“Do not join encounter groups.  If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.”

“To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.”

“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

“You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

“Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.”

“All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.”

“Good gossip is just what’s going on.  Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.”

“Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”

“One of the best parts of growing older?  You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.”

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little.  Do what you can.”

“What you become is what counts.”

Liz Smith has appeared in the following films:
Leo the Last (1970)
Bleak Moments (1971)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Duellists (1977)
Agatha (1979)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
The Monster Club (1980)
The Fan (1981)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Crystal Gazing (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Fanny Hill (1983)
Garbo Talks (1984)
A Private Function (1984)
Apartment Zero (1988)
High Spirits (1988)
Little Dorrit (1988)
We Think the World of You (1988)
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Haunted (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
The Revengers’ Comedies (1998)
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1999)
Dead Cool (2004)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Keeping Mum (2005)
Flick (2008)