Angela Lansbury famous quotes

03-28-2025

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Worry #Busy
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

#Collaboration #Actors #Rehearsal
Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Directors #Bucks #Shows
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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Thinking #Actresses
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!
-- Angela Lansbury

#Mean #Awards #Age
I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Gone #Actors #Desperate
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Mystery #Appeals
The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Important #Faces
We all have levels of performance.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Levels #Performances
I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Dance #Stars #Dancing
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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#House #Hollywood #Desks
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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Giving #Purpose #Want
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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Mother #Kids #Thinking
I never regretted what I turned down.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Never Regret #Turned Down
Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.
-- Angela Lansbury

#New York #Believe #Love You
Actors are not made, they are born.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Actors #Born #Made
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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Years #Finishing #Able
The theater is magical and addictive.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Theater
Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Goes On #Tides #Stills
A sitcom. I hate that word.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Hate #I Hate #Sitcom
I don't think about going back to the theater.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Thinking #Theater
I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Running #Book #Apology
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Thinking #Long #Teeth
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Thinking #Made
... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Littles #Lifestyle #Etiquette

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