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Actually the years when I was ...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

I really wanted to go back to ...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

When I opened up in 'Gaslight...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

Everything I did actually help...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

I don't care whether it's a ch...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

You just have to be open and r...

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

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

The thing I always say is that...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

Roles came to me. I was very, ...

Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted for their picture or their play or whatever it was, whether it was Edward Albee or whether it was - or Peter Hall, directors. They would come to me, thank God. I was lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

My mother was one of the most ...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

Now the Gielgud Theater is a v...

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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My memory about names and plac...

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

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

They're great devotees of Noel...

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 90 quotes

I played the Piccadilly Theate...

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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I haven't been back to London ...

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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I usually arrive at the first ...

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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It's better not to try to lear...

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

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

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

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You learn the values that are ...

You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.

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Psychologically, you learn the...

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

The older I get, the more I re...

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.

Angela Lansbury 90 quotes

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