Angela Lansbury Quotes

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I'd love to direct more.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

Every actor wants to direct.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

I would love to do different things, like behind-the-scenes work - just like Ron Howard!

I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.

We know it's a young man's game.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

Everyone keeps telling me how young I am, but if the right opportunity comes up, I'm ready to manage.

I always dreamt of being a director.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.