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

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

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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!"

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"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

Explore more quotes by Angela Lansbury

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody."

"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 have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."

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