Dame Angela Lansbury movie quotes

“I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them.”

Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin

“- Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
- Mary Poppins: They always do.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady
Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins

“You've forgotten what it's like... to be a child.”

Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady

“- Lumiere: Impress her with your rapier wit.
- Mrs. Potts: But be gentle.
- Lumiere: Shower her with compliments.
- Mrs. Potts: But be sincere.
- Lumiere: And above all.
- Lumiere, Mrs. Potts: You must control your temper!”

Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts

“- Granny: Your only sister, all alone in the wood, and nobody there to save her. Poor little lamb.
- Rosaleen: Why couldn't she save herself?
- Granny: You don't know anything, you're only a child.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Granny
Sarah Patterson - Rosaleen

“- Granny: Get ye back to Hell from whence ye came!
- Huntsman: I don't come from Hell, I come from the forest.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Granny
Micha Bergese - Huntsman

“Frenchmen aren't afraid of good strong sex!”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Salome Otterbourne

“There was a time, not very long ago, where we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my son, Nicholas, was the czar of Imperial Russia.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Jason Rudd: She's dead.
- Miss Jane Marple: I rather suspected as much. And you?
- Jason Rudd: I killed her. I put poison in her hot chocolate last night. It was inevitable she would have been discovered. I... couldn't let her face the humiliation. She suffered enough.
- Miss Jane Marple: You must have loved her very much.”

Rock Hudson - Jason Rudd
Dame Angela Lansbury - Miss Marple

“Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Granny

“- Rosaleen: I'd never let a man strike me.
- Granny: Oh, they're nice as pie until they've had their way with you. But once the bloom is gone... oh, the beast comes out.”
Sarah Patterson - Rosaleen
Dame Angela Lansbury - Granny

“So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was now gone forever. And my Anastasia, my beloved grandchild - I never saw her again.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Dimitri: I don't want your money.
- Dowager Empress Marie: What do you want then?
- Dimitri: Unfortunately, nothing you can give.”
John Cusack - Dimitri
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Dowager Empress Marie: You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward.
- Dimitri: Not anymore.
- Dowager Empress Marie: Why the change of mind?
- Dimitri: It was more a change of heart.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie
John Cusack - Dimitri

Walt Disney described the art of animation as a voyage of discovery, into the realms of color, sound, and motion. The music from Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" inspires such a voyage.
Dame Angela Lansbury - Herself - Hostess (segment "Firebird Suite - 1919 Version")

“- Anastasia: I remember now how much I loved them.
- Dowager Empress Marie: They would not want us to live in the past, not now that we have found each other.”

Meg Ryan - Anastasia
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Chip: Mama, there's a girl in the castle!
- Mrs. Potts: Now Chip, I'll not have you making up such wild stories.
- Chip: Really, Mama, I saw her!
- Mrs. Potts: Not another word, into the tub.
- Chip: [Mrs. Potts lifts Chip into the tub] But. What?
- Featherduster: A girl! I saw a girl in the castle!”
Bradley Pierce - Chip
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts
Kimmy Robertson - Featherduster

“- Beast: She's so beautiful, and I'm. Well, look at me!
- Mrs. Potts: Oh, must help her to see past all that.
- Beast: I don't know how.
- Mrs. Potts: Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable. Straighten up. Try to act like a gentleman.”
Robby Benson - Beast
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts

“- Mrs. Salome Otterbourne: Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.
- Hercule Poirot: Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot