Angela Lansbury Quotes

• We all have levels of performance.

  Angela Lansbury

• The theater is magical and addictive.

  Angela Lansbury

• The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let’s face it.

  Angela Lansbury

• Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

  Angela Lansbury

• I’ve worked with the greatest actors, and they’re all gone. This is what’s so desperate to me.

  Angela Lansbury

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I never regretted what I turned down.

  Angela Lansbury

• I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.

  Angela Lansbury

• 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

• 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

• I don’t think about going back to the theater.

  Angela Lansbury

• Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

  Angela Lansbury

• 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

• 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

• A sitcom. I hate that word.

  Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury (17)

Birth:	16th October, 1925
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, to Northern Irish-born actress Moyna MacGill and timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the London Borough of Poplar. She attended South Hampstead High School for Girls, the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1939–40, and the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York from 1940-42.
Just prior to the London Blitz, Lansbury's mother took her children to New York City. They arrived in NY on August 25, 1940. When her mother settled in Hollywood following a tour of a Noël Coward play, Lansbury joined her there. Lansbury worked at the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles. At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight (1944), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid. This was the 18-year-old Lansbury's first film role. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the following year gained another nomination for her performance as the doomed Sibyl Vane in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).

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