Quotes by Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

… because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too — a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Etiquette

Lifestyle

Littles

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.

Boards

Roles

Years

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.

Favors

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.

Believe

Love You

New York

I can’t say that I deserve longlife; I don’t. I’ve just been around long enough. They say, “My God, she’s still here.”

Enough

Long

Stills

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.

Care

Roles

Sublime

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I’m a bit long in the tooth to start.

Long

Teeth

Thinking

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

Feelings

Granted

Individual

I honestly feel that “Murder, She Wrote” stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it’s still on. It’s still all over the world, “Murder, She Wrote,” Jessica Fletcher and “Murder, She Wrote.”

Past

World

Years

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.

Japan

Thinking

Yellowstone

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Careers

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Character

Choir

Collaboration

Crazy

Dance

Dancing

Desperate

Different

Directors

Eight

Enough

Etiquette

Favors

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Fighting

Finishing

Firsts

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Gone

Granted

I Can

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Littles

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Mother

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Quotes by Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

… because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too — a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

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.

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.

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.

I can’t say that I deserve longlife; I don’t. I’ve just been around long enough. They say, “My God, she’s still here.”

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.

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I’m a bit long in the tooth to start.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I honestly feel that “Murder, She Wrote” stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it’s still on. It’s still all over the world, “Murder, She Wrote,” Jessica Fletcher and “Murder, She Wrote.”

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.

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