Top 246 Quotes & Sayings by Julie Andrews
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Julie Andrews.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
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.
In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.
I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.
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.
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.
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
I was a very sad little girl.
I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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.
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 did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
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.
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.
Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
I hate the word wholesome.
When one door closes, another window opens.
Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass.
Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
The arts need funding.
I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.
There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there.
The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.
I'm resilient, and I'm professional.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
I was always told I was not pretty enough.
How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?
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.
I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.
I've got a good right hook.
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
You never start out being a star.
I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.
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