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.

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.

It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

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 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.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

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.