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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
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Singer
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The Regent's Park
Angela Brigid Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
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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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I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.
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I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
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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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Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.
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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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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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I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.
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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 just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your life because you spent all of it acting, but I think gosh, I've never been to China, I've never been to Japan. I've never been to Yellowstone Park.
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We all have levels of performance.
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I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.
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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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Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.
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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'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.
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The theater is magical and addictive.
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Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
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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 made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
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