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“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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Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury, born on October 16, 1925, is a renowned British-American actress. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in theater, film, and television, particularly for her roles in 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. Lansbury's acting career spans several decades, and she has won numerous awards and accolades for her masterful acting skills and diverse character portrayals. more

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“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 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 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 got to learn.”

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“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 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.”

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“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.”

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“I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.”

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“I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.”

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“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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