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" 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. "

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" Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time? "

Julie Andrews

Life

Right

Right Time

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

" Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. "

" I think any director is intimidating. "

" More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool. "

Julie Andrews

Anything

Arts

" 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

" In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too. "

" I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum. "

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

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

Julie Andrews

Sing

Song

" I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. "

" Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. "

" I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts. "

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

" 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. "

Julie Andrews

Good

Know

" 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. "

" I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces. "

" 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. "

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

" I was working from a very early age. "

" Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there. "

" The arts need funding. "

" 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. "

" 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 had a lot of learning on my feet. "

" 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. "

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

" Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject. "

" 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. "