Quotes By Julie Andrews

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

I am an optimistic lady.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

I've got a good right hook.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

I hate the word wholesome.