Julie Andrews Quotes

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Julie Andrews

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 1, 1935

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

Julie Andrews

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.

Julie Andrews

You never start out being a star.

Julie Andrews

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.

Julie Andrews

I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.

Julie Andrews

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

Julie Andrews

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

Julie Andrews

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.

Julie Andrews

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Julie Andrews

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.

Julie Andrews

I've always seen the cup as half-full.

Julie Andrews

Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.

Julie Andrews

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

Julie Andrews

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

Julie Andrews

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

Julie Andrews

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

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

The arts need funding.

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 know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.

Julie Andrews