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  • I never regretted what I turned down.

  • 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 Angie to everybody, you've got to learn.

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  • Actors are not made, they are born.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

    Angela Lansbury “Quick Quotations”, Lulu.com
  • 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 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.

  • 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!

  • 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 really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

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  • You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.

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  • I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

  • 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.

  • They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.

    "Angela Lansbury Talks BLITHE SPIRIT & More On TAVIS SMILEY" by Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 19, 2013.
  • 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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  • The theater is magical and addictive.

  • I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be tickled to death knowing that that was what I was doing. I hope she would. She was a wonderfully unique and very special, very darling woman.

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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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  • 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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  • We all have levels of performance.

  • My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

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  • The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

  • 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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  • Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

  • I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

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  • I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.

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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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