Angela Lansbury - biography

“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.”

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

“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!”

“I made about 56 movies, I think.  Not that many.”

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

“A sitcom.  I hate that word.”

“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 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.”

“Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck.  He knows where it will show on the screen.”

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

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

“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 never regretted what I turned down.”

“Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.”

“The theater is magical and addictive.”

“We all have levels of performance.”

Angela Lansbury has appeared in the following films:
Gaslight (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
If Winter Comes (1947)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
State of the Union (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Red Danube (1949)
Kind Lady (1951)
Mutiny (1952)
The Court Jester (1955)
The Purple Mask (1955)
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
All Fall Down (1962)
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
In the Cool of the Day (1963)
Dear Heart (1964)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Something for Everyone (1970)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Lady Vanishes (1979)
The Mirror Crack’d (1980)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Your Studio and You (1995)
Anastasia (1997)
About Schmidt (2002)
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Heidi 4 Paws (2008)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)