Best quotes by Julie Andrews

I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew.

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.

All love shifts and changes.

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

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

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.

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

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

I hate the word wholesome.

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

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

I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a "hands across the water" thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.

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.

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

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

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

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

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.

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.

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

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.

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

Beginnings are always hard.

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

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

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.

After all, children are children no matter their background.

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.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

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

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

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

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.

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

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

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When in doubt, stand still.

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

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

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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.

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