Julie Andrews

I was very green and very green about being in America. An 18-year-old girl is like a 16-year-old girl over here. I felt very young and out of my depth. I would stop in shop doorways because I would get so dizzy from the pace.

and I have a hunch that husband Blake Edwards has got something up his sleeve.

You Light Up My Life.

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

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I've got a good right hook.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

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

I found it hard to get close to my stepfather at first. He began giving me singing lessons when I was about 7 or 8 in an effort to create a bond between us.

I am an optimistic lady.

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

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.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

I hate the word wholesome.

He is adored and adorable. He was a calming, grave, gentle man who remained a tremendous friend to me all these years.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

He won the same two honors in 1966 for the box office smash The Sound of Music, ... The Sand Pebbles.

I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.