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'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. -- Dick Van Dyke
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff. -- Anita Diament
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. -- Carol Burnett
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. -- Anita Diament
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation. -- Dick Van Dyke
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life. -- P. L. Travers
Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at. -- Richard Eyre
I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it. -- Willa Holland
I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end. -- Dick Van Dyke
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film. -- P. L. Travers
I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer. -- Nikki Blonsky
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. -- Julie Andrews
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life. -- P. L. Travers
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. -- Jenny McCarthy
I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved 'Bambi.' I loved 'Cinderella,' 'Lady and the Tramp' and 'Snow White' and even 'Mary Poppins' which wasn't even fully animated - it was just a little bit animated. They were such a part of my growing up years; I was just very connected to them. -- Anika Noni Rose
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Mary Poppins is magical and fun. -- Julie Andrews
I hate being good. -Mary Poppins -- P. L. Travers
Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins. -- Riff Raff
Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. -- Dick Van Dyke
I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it. -- Willa Holland
As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye. -- Milton Jones
If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking. -- Nathan Lane
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life. -- P. L. Travers
Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects. -- James Fadiman
I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film. -- P. L. Travers
Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. -- Steve Kluger
I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal! -- Ashley Jensen
You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals. -- Janina Gavankar
I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it. -- Todd Haynes
She's kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force," Oberon said. He was still behind the counter, but he had a good lok at her as she exited. "Let go of your anger, Malina! There's still good in you! The Emperor hasn't driven it from you fully! -- Kevin Hearne
I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version. -- Sarah Gavron
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor

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