English actress & singer (1935- )
Beginnings are always hard.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, American Libraries Magazine
As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.
JULIE ANDREWS
"Thoroughly Modern Julie", The Guardian, Oct. 13, 2004
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Telegraph, May 4, 2010
If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!
JULIE ANDREWS
"I Feel Von Trapped!", Women & Home, July 2000
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"
JULIE ANDREWS
This Week, Sep. 18, 1966
Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.
JULIE ANDREWS
The New York Times, Mar. 14, 1982
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, American Libraries Magazine
You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, Broadway World, Jul. 21, 2010
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
JULIE ANDREWS
attributed, Words of Wellness
I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.
JULIE ANDREWS
"I Feel Von Trapped!", Women & Home, July 2000
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, Broadway World, Jul. 21, 2010
I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, American Libraries Magazine
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
News of the World, Jun. 1986