People say to me,' Well, how can you play Jessica Fletcher and then you come along and play Madame Arcati ?' i say,' It's all about imagination.' That's what acting is, is imagination. If you don't have imagination, you're not going to want to play different roles. I've always wanted to attack roles that didn't appear to be something I'd ever done before.

Angela Lansbury

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Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

Angela Lansbury

busy worry

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

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ready happens

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

Angela Lansbury

tides goes-on here-i-am

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

Angela Lansbury

constitution care strong

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.

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purpose want giving

We all have levels of performance.

Angela Lansbury

performances levels

Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.

Angela Lansbury

finishing able years

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

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granted individual feelings

I'm Angie to everybody, you've got to learn.

Angela Lansbury

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.

Angela Lansbury

realizing careers busy

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

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murder daughter watches

The theater is magical and addictive.

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theater

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

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appeals mystery

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.

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dancing dance stars

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

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etiquette lifestyle littles

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.

Angela Lansbury

lines acting way

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

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rehearsal collaboration actors

My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.

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mother beautiful people

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

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revenue roles play

Actors are not made, they are born.

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born actors made