Julie Andrews

“I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.”

“I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her.”

“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.”

“You never start out being a star.”

“The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.”

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

“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.”

“When one door closes, another window opens.”

“If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.”

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

“I am thrilled to be dame. It's one of those - the fact that you have been honored by your country is what it's all about, and it just feels good right there.”

“Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.”

“If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.”

“My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.”

“You're always changing your thoughts about things.”

“I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.”

“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”