Julie Andrews Quotes

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

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
Julie Andrews

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews

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.
Julie Andrews

I am an optimistic lady.
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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.
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I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
Julie Andrews

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

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

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
Julie Andrews

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
Julie Andrews

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.
Julie Andrews

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews

I've got a good right hook.
Julie Andrews

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

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.
Julie Andrews