Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, DBEis an English-Irish-American actress who has appeared in theatre, television and film. Her career has spanned seven decades, much of it based in the United States, and her work has attracted international attention...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth16 October 1925
CityLondon, England
CountryUnited States of America
thinking made
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
mother kids thinking
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.
thinking long teeth
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
thinking theater
I don't think about going back to the theater.
thinking yellowstone japan
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.
thinking actresses i-can
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.
carry enviable finishing work
I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage.
I had surgery, and I put it off for a long time. I want to tell women: don't put it off.
rehearsal pages collaboration
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.
sublime roles care
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.
fighting people roles
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.
memories names lines
My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.
fun crazy son
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.
years done london
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.