A Quote by P. L. Travers

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

P. L. Travers

Quote Topics

Being Good Hate I Hate Mary

Quote Author

P. L. Travers
Australian - Writer
August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996

When I was three years old, a nanny took me shopping and I saw large cut-outs of Mary Poppins in the store and yelled, 'That's mummy!' These women walked by and said, 'Oh how cute. That little girl thinks that Mary Poppins is her mum.'

Emma Walton Hamilton

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

You're worried about the quality of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen's child care? It's not like they're getting their nanny off Craigslist. They're rich celebrities. They could get Mary Poppins to watch their baby, as in literally call Julie Andrews, get her to come out of retirement to babysit in character as Mary Poppins.

Desi Lydic

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

Julie Andrews

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

Willa Holland

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

Dawn Steel

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Dick Van Dyke

Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

Riff Raff

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

Robert Eggers

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

Ann Coulter

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

Anita Diament

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

Jonathan Groff

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Richard Eyre

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 was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

Jonathan Groff

As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.