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" I'm beginning to think that I like the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do in front of the camera as I get a little bit older. "

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" I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well. "

" I'm resilient, and I'm professional. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I hate the word wholesome. "

" I was working from a very early age. "

" My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't bring the arts too soon to kids. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' "

" I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. "

" 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. "

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

" The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs. "

" I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours. "

" You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off. "

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

" I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did. "

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

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" Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear. "