Julie Harris

“I would loathe to work on modern films.”

“It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.”

“But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.”

“I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.”

“That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.”

“I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.”

“I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.”

“I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.”

“There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.”

“I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.”

“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.”

“I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.”

“On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.”

“You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.”

“I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.”

“When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.”

“Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.”

“The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.”

“John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.”

“I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.”