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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.

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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The theater is magical and addictive.
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The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.
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It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.
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I never regretted what I turned down.
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I don't think about going back to the theater.
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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 deserve longlife I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, My God, she's still here.
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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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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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I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
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Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
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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 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'm Angie to everybody, you've got to learn.
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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 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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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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