English actress & singer (1935- )
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
JULIE ANDREWS
"Thoroughly Modern Julie", The Guardian, Oct. 13, 2004
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.
JULIE ANDREWS
The New York Times, Mar. 14, 1982
I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn't really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
JULIE ANDREWS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 2000
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Life is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius.
JULIE ANDREWS
Star Weekly, Apr. 29, 1965
Marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
JULIE ANDREWS
The New York Times, Mar. 14, 1982
I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
JULIE ANDREWS
Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 1980
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
Connecticut Mag, Nov. 4, 2012
I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, American Libraries Magazine
I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, American Libraries Magazine
Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.
JULIE ANDREWS
The New York Times, Mar. 14, 1982
Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. So I think I've been very, very lucky.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Telegraph, May 4, 2010
I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.
JULIE ANDREWS
The Telegraph, May 4, 2010
I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?
JULIE ANDREWS
Photoplay, Sep. 1973
It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!
JULIE ANDREWS
interview, Broadway World, Jul. 21, 2010
Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
JULIE ANDREWS
This Week, Sep. 18, 1966
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
interview, Broadway World, Jul. 21, 2010
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.
JULIE ANDREWS
Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 1980