A biography for Julie Andrewshasn’t been written yet.
“Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by.”
“More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.”
“Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.”
“I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.”
“Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.”
“I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.”
“Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.”
“I think any director is intimidating.”
“I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.”
“Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.”
“There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.”
“I'm resilient, and I'm professional.”
“There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.”
“I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.”
“I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.”
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
“You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off.”