Julie Andrews Quotes

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Julie Andrews

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 1, 1935

I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.'

Julie Andrews

I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.

Julie Andrews

My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.

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Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

Julie Andrews

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

Julie Andrews

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

Julie Andrews

By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.

Julie Andrews

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

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I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.

Julie Andrews

I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Between 'Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music,' there were beautiful plates that they made, and I've signed a lot of them.

Julie Andrews

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.

Julie Andrews

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

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I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

Julie Andrews

You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.

Julie Andrews

When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that.

Julie Andrews

I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.

Julie Andrews

I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.

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