“I mean, there are times when you walk into that dressing room and you think, ‘I can’t do this. I cannot do this.’ And it’s a curious thing: When you sit down in front of that mirror and you pick up that first piece of makeup and you start to apply it – you see how I immediately go under the eyes? First thing! – and suddenly, you transform yourself into that person who is capable of going on stage and delivering that performance. And you do it, and yes, you can. Yes, I can! Yes, I can!”
“I’d like to do one great movie before I pass along the way,” she said. “I don’t know what it’ll be. But I think there’s one out there somewhere.”
Angela Lansbury, in her sit-down interview with Katie Couric on CBS Sunday Morning.