Julie Andrews Quotes

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

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

Life is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

"Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At one point, Tony said, "Look at the pattern of lace the leaves make against the sky." I looked at the canopy above us, and suddenly saw what he saw. My perspective completely shifted. I realized I didn't have his "eyes" — though once he pointed it out, it became obvious. It made me think, "My God, I never look enough," and in the years since, I've tried very hard to look — and look again."

I strive to get what I want and people have always said I am a monster in that department, but that is always said about us ladies who grasp for our own strength.

'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?

Karen, who played Jane, was only seven years old, but was calm and sweet, and had perfect manners. Her father, Roy Dotrice, was a well-known English actor, so Karen had been schooled in performance etiquette.

I was anxious to take some action that I could control; to establish something that was mine alone.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

Dad was not a religious man, and he once said to me that he didn’t think he would believe in God at all were it not for the existence of two things: trees — and man’s conscience. He said that without trees, we would not survive on this planet, for they feed us, clothe us, shelter us, make oxygen. Without a conscience, man would probably never have developed beyond a primitive state.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.

home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...

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... As long as Blake knows.