101 Quotes by Angela Lansbury

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

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.

When I opened up in “Gaslight,” for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

The thing I always say is that I wasn’t going out reaching for roles, I wasn’t fighting for roles – people came to me. They always came 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!