Quotes from Julie Andrews

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

I was working from a very early age.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

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

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

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 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.