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The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
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Angela Brigid Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
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Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
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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 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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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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My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.
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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 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 was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
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Actors are not made, they are born.
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Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in to see a play, unless you have a name that is recognizable, that the audience wants to see and is prepared to pay the $125 to see.
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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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