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
never-regret turned-down
I never regretted what I turned down.
mystery appeals
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
actors born made
Actors are not made, they are born.
years able finishing
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.
theater
The theater is magical and addictive.
house hollywood desks
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.
thinking made
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
careers years wonderful
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.
thinking theater
I don't think about going back to the theater.
important faces candidates
The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
dance stars dancing
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.
years eight different
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.
favors
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.
memories real moving
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.