Julie Andrews Quotes


"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Being)

"Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Past, Right)

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love, Time)

"Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it."
- Julie Andrews
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: People, Discipline, Order)

"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
(Related: Lady, Leading)

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Perseverance)

"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
(Related: Women)

"If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love)

"I've got a good right hook."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Right)

"I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Fool)

"I am an optimistic lady."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Lady)

"Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Joy)

"Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Singing)

"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
(Related: Thought)

"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
(Related: Work, Money, Authority, Woman)

"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."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Country)

"I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Today)

"I hate the word wholesome."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Hate, Word)

"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love)

"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
(Related: Family, Privacy)

"I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love, Career, Singing)

"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
(Related: Time, Father, Being)