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I never regretted what I turned down.
Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
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The Regent's Park
Angela Brigid Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
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My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.
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I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.
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I can't say that I deserve longlife I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, My God, she's still here.
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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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You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.
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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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Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
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Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.
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Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.
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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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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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I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.
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I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
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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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We all have levels of performance.
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Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.
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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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The theater is magical and addictive.
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Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.
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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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