Julie Andrews Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

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.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

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

I am an optimistic lady.

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.

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

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

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

I've got a good right hook.

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

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

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

All love shifts and changes.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

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

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’

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.

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

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

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've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

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

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.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

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

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

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

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 don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

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

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.