Julie Andrews quotes:

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.

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.

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

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.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

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

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.

It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

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

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

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

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

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 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.

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

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

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

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

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

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.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

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.

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

I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

I hate the word wholesome.

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.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!

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.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

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

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 think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

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.

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

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.

Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.

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

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

When in doubt, stand still.

I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

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.

I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

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.

After all, children are children no matter their background.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

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

Beginnings are always hard.

I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

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

When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in,

The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.

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

I am an optimistic lady.

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

Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

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

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

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

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.

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!

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

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

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.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

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.

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

Sadly I don't sing. I missed it for a long time, but my daughter Emma said something wonderful when I was feeling blue one day: "Mom, you've just found a different way of using your voice, and that's with your books." In a way, she's right. It's just a different way of expressing what I feel about music, individuality, art and all the things I've always loved.

My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.

I've got a good right hook.

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

Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

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

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

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

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.

I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

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

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

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.'

All love shifts and changes...

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

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

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.