Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Julie Harris

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Julie Harris.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Julie Harris

Julia Ann Harris was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals. — © Julie Harris
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.
I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
I would loathe to work on modern films.
Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.
I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.
The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar. — © Julie Harris
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.
I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.
That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.
Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.
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