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" If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else. "

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Julie Andrews

Far

Far Away

" As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say. "

" 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? "

" I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well. "

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

" Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place. "

" I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it. "

" In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first. "

" I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award. "

" I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working. "

" I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work. "

Julie Andrews

Work

Mother

" When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. "

" You never start out being a star. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it. "

Julie Andrews

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Know

" When one door closes, another window opens. "