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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
Actor
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The Regent's Park
Angela Brigid Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
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You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.
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... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
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I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.
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My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.
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When I opened up in Gaslight, for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.
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The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.
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The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
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I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
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Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.
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You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.
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You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.
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I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
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I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.
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The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.
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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
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I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.
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I don't think about going back to the theater.
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All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.
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Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.
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