6. She uttered the very last line in the last episode of Downton Abbey Isobel (Penelope Wilton):“What else could we drink to? We’re going forward into the future, not back into the past.”
Dowager Countess (Maggie):“If only we had the choice.“
7. She survived breast cancer
8. She’s modest: “I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.”–Maggie Smith
9. Is good friends with Judi Dench
10. Her accent, of course