Angela Lansbury Quotes

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

Angela Lansbury

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• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Song
  • Dream

• My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Army

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Why
  • Space

• Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Food

• I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Guy

• Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Him

• It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Class

• The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God

• 'I cannot raise my worth too high;Of what vast consequence am I!''Not of the importance you suppose,'Replies a Flea upon his nose;'Be humble, learn thyself to scan;Know, pride was never made for man.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • High
  • Pride
  • Humble

• Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Good
  • High
  • Baby

• A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Great

• It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Great
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident.

  

  Blaise Pascal

• Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

  

  Jeff Jordan
  • Great
  • Business
  • Boy

• All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.

  

  John Gay

• If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • People
  • Culture
  • Senior

• If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Up
  • Help
  • Question

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

  

  Angela Lansbury