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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. "

Julie Andrews

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

" All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. "

" I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity. "

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" 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? "

" Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents. "

" The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same. "

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

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Down

" My voice needed oiling, and then it took off. "

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

" 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. "

" When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. "

Julie Andrews

Audience

Think

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" I've got a good right hook. "

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" 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. "

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