Julie Andrews Quotes

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

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

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• I’d like to thank all those who made this possible—especially Jack Warner.

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• I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it’s like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

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• I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

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• I was named after my two grandmothers – Julia Elizabeth.

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• 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.

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• A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

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• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

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• 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.

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• I don’t want to be thought of as wholesome.

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• I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was ‘home.’

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• Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.

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• 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.

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

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• And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I’m so happy.

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

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

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• Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

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Julie Andrews (39)

Birth:	1st October, 1935
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Andrews is a former child actress and singer who appeared on the West End in 1948, and made her Broadway debut in a 1954 production of The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which earned her Tony Award nominations. In 1957, she appeared on television with the title role in Cinderella, which was seen by over 100 million viewers.

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• 1926 - Joseph McKenna
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay
• 1958 - Mel Ott
• 1959 - Max Baer
• 1945 - Robert Benchley