Julie Andrews Thinking Quotations

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

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

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

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

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.

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.

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.

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.

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.

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.