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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass. "

" 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. "

" All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. "

" 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. "

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

" I was always told I was not pretty enough. "

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

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

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

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

" I like - I actually love classical music very much. "

" I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I am thrilled to be dame. It's one of those - the fact that you have been honored by your country is what it's all about, and it just feels good right there. "

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

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

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

" I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one. "