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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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As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.
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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 played the Piccadilly Theater with Gypsy and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.
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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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Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
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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'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.
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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 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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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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Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
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I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
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