Julie Andrews Quotes (38 Quotes)


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

    All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.



    The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.



    He is adored and adorable. He was a calming, grave, gentle man who remained a tremendous friend to me all these years.

    I found it hard to get close to my stepfather at first. He began giving me singing lessons when I was about 7 or 8 in an effort to create a bond between us.

    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 was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

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

    and I have a hunch that husband Blake Edwards has got something up his sleeve.

    I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

    It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

    I was very green and very green about being in America. An 18-year-old girl is like a 16-year-old girl over here. I felt very young and out of my depth. I would stop in shop doorways because I would get so dizzy from the pace.

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

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

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

    I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

    Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

    I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

    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.

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

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


    I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made 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.

    I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.


    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

    Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.



    He was a dear friend, a true mentor and the epitome of a gentle man,

    Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

    As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

    He won the same two honors in 1966 for the box office smash The Sound of Music, ... The Sand Pebbles.


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