Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth "Julie" Andrews, DBEis an English film and stage actress, a singer, an author, a theatre director, and a dancer. Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared on the West End in 1948, and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend. In 1957, she appeared on television with the title role in the musical, Cinderella, which was seen by over 100 million viewers. She rose to prominence starring in musicals such as My Fair Ladyand Camelot...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 October 1935
clear one-thing
I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.
thinking giving bigs
Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.
hate i-hate
I hate the word wholesome.
careers singing adore
I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
past judging people
I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
singing easy
Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
broadway flash made
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
beautiful song thinking
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
love heartbreak depressing
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
education order people
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
thinking backwards bits
Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
lovely would-be potters
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
children kids thinking
Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.
teacher children people
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.