Angela Lansbury Quotes

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

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

The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

We all have levels of performance.

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.

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

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

Actors are not made, they are born.

I never regretted what I turned down.

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.

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.

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.