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" I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling. "

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" I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of 'doo wah wahs,' if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them. "

" 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. "

" Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing. "

" Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me. "

" Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. "

" I've always seen the cup as half-full. "

" The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency. "

" I think any director is intimidating. "

" I'm not very good with rap and things like that. "

" 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. "

" Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. "

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

" You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric. "

" How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on? "

" For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first. "

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

" 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. "

" Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do. "

" 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 did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.' "

" I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.' "

" One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "

" Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want. "

" I've got a good right hook. "

" I don't want to be thought of as wholesome. "

" Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical. "

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

" I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous. "

" A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator. "

" I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. "