Latest Julie Andrews Quotes from Interviews

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• I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Compassion, Generosity

  Source: www.elle.com

• I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a "hands across the water" thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Priorities, My Family

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• It is America that gave me so much in my life. It wasn't until I came to America that my life just exploded in so many ways. So for me, I think in a way, though I'm English, I've been living the American Dream and I'm eternally grateful to Americans for allowing me to do what I love doing the most.

  Julie Andrews

  Dream, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• In the old days it was important, but not as important as it is today, to keep making success after success after success. It's terrifying today. You can maybe have one so-so movie but you've got to come back with another that's huge, if possible, and that must be very, very difficult for young talent.

  Julie Andrews

  Important, Today, Talent

• If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.

  Julie Andrews

  Optimistic, Miracle, Together

  "First Lady of the Musical Theater". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

• My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.

  Julie Andrews

  Circumstances, Extraordinary, Good Fortune

  "First Lady of the Musical Theater". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

• My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

  Julie Andrews

  Book, Words Of Wisdom, Three

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I expend a great deal of effort and spend an enormous amount of time on my books. And I've been writing now for 35 years.

  Julie Andrews

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Writing, Care

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

  Julie Andrews

  Lonely, Writing, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Reading, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and illustrate what they saw in their minds' eyes during the story is a tremendous teaching aid.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Teaching, Eye

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

  Julie Andrews

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

  Julie Andrews

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.

  Julie Andrews

  Stars, Reading, Night

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related, that can be so stimulating for them. Anything that makes children engage and think - and love what the story is about - can only bring the most enormous rewards.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Reading, Imagination

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

  Julie Andrews

  Daughter, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

  Julie Andrews

  Blessed, Right Time, Right Place

  "Julie Andrews: The real deal". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. May 17, 2007.

• There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Thrill, Orchestra

  "Julie Andrews: The real deal". Interview With Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. May 17, 2007.

• My husband knows me better than anyone.

  Julie Andrews

  Husband, My Husband, Know Me

  "Julie Andrews: The real deal". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. May 17, 2007.

• I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

  Julie Andrews

  Voice, I Realized

  "Julie Andrews: The real deal". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. May 17, 2007.