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I'm Angie to everybody, you've got to learn.

Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
Actor
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Angela Brigid Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
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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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The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
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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 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 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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Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
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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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A sitcom. I hate that word.
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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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Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.
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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'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.
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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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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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The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.
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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
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The theater is magical and addictive.
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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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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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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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