Julie Andrews Quotes

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I expend a great deal of effort and spend an enormous amount of time on my books. And I've been writing now for 35 years.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

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

My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

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

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

After all, children are children no matter their background.

If you're passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly. Be prepared that if anytime, you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way, and that's when I say, do your homework. Be ready.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget.

So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and illustrate what they saw in their minds' eyes during the story is a tremendous teaching aid.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of 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.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew.

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

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

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

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.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

It is America that gave me so much in my life. It wasn't until I came to America that my life just exploded in so many ways. So for me, I think in a way, though I'm English, I've been living the American Dream and I'm eternally grateful to Americans for allowing me to do what I love doing the most.

I am an optimistic lady.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

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.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.