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" I did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.' "
Julie Andrews
Did
Fair
Learning
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" Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do. "
Julie Andrews
Work
Hardest
Marriage
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Dressing
Living
Morning
" I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well. "
Julie Andrews
Doing
Well
Daughter
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Voice
Words
Me
" I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect. "
Julie Andrews
Got
Respect
Music
" I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on. "
Julie Andrews
She
I Am
Woman
" Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.' "
Julie Andrews
Fall
Hope
Good
" The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys. "
Julie Andrews
Grateful
Beginning
End
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Character
Father
Mother
" I had a lot of learning on my feet. "
Julie Andrews
Had
Feet
Lot
" I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it. "
Julie Andrews
Better
Wish
Mother
" My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her. "
Julie Andrews
Me
Mother
Youth
" If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing. "
Julie Andrews
Know
Beautiful
Educated
" Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass. "
Julie Andrews
Old Man
Down
River
" I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did. "
Julie Andrews
Music
Sound
Things
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Rose
You
Way
" I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. "
Julie Andrews
Own
Fool
Deny
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Privacy
Where
Think
" Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. "
Julie Andrews
Wave
You
Hands
" I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step. "
Julie Andrews
Around
Step
Broadway
" I think any director is intimidating. "
Julie Andrews
Think
Director
I Think
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Water
Always
Because
" Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. "
Julie Andrews
Discipline
Fly
Free
" I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads. "
Julie Andrews
Knowing
Hard
Over
" I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it. "
Julie Andrews
Girl
Fun
Life
" I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap. "
Julie Andrews
Mother
Long
Life
" You're always changing your thoughts about things. "
Julie Andrews
You
Thoughts
Things
" I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time. "
Julie Andrews
World
Talent
Place
" I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure. "
Julie Andrews
People
Sound
Pleasure
" I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' "
Julie Andrews
Child
Word
I Am