110+ Julie Andrews Quotes From The Star Of 'The Sound Of Music'

Julie Andrews is royalty in movie and film media, having conquered our hearts with her exemplary talent as an actress, dancer, and singer.

She started her career as a child actor who rose to prominence with movies like 'My Fair Lady' after which she was named 'Britain's youngest prima-donna.'

Her most iconic and memorable performance as an actress is in the films 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound Of Music', which garnered praise and resulted in her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her brilliance in acting and singing.

One of her most famous quotes over the years includes, "Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen.

A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside our greed, anger, pride, and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur."

If you are a fan of this outstanding performer and genuinely good human being, you will love this list of quotes from her life and her movies as well. Here you will find many Julie Andrew romantic quotes, which, if you are watching her for the first time, will make you feel happy.

The English actress had made many films and has set herself apart on the world stage with her movies.

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Quotes By Julie Andrews

Here is a list of some of the best quotes by Julie Andrews herself, including perseverance quotes, Julie Andrews quotes on beauty, funny Julie Andrews quotes, Julie Andrews romance quotes, and more.

1. "Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there."

-Julie Andrews.

2. "Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark."

-Julie Andrews.

3. "If you're passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly."

-Julie Andrews.

4. "When an opportunity comes you can grab it."

-Julie Andrews.

5. "When in doubt, stand still."

-Julie Andrews.

6. "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

-Julie Andrews.

7. "Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy."

-Julie Andrews.

8. "Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

10. "Be prepared that if anytime, you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way, and that's when I say, do your homework. Be ready."

-Julie Andrews.

11. "It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round."

-Julie Andrews.

12. "If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out."

-Julie Andrews.

13. "Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside our greed, anger, pride, and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur."

-Julie Andrews.

14. "The amateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong."

-Julie Andrews.

15. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

16. "When adversity hits, go out and learn something."

-Julie Andrews.

17. "Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?"

-Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins.

18. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

19. "Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings...everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice."

-Julie Andrews.

20. "If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

22. "Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong."

-Julie Andrews.

23. "If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

25. "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.

26. "I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights."

-Julie Andrews.

27. "When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons."

-Julie Andrews.

28. "Beginnings are always hard."

-Julie Andrews.

29. "After all, children are children no matter their background."

-Julie Andrews.

30. "All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time."

-Julie Andrews.

31. "Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard."

-Julie Andrews.

32. "Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

35. "For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core."

-Julie Andrews.

36. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

37. "After all, children are children no matter their background."

-Julie Andrews.

38. "Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about."

-Julie Andrews.

39. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

40. "Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes."

-Julie Andrews.

41. "Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard."

-Julie Andrews.

42. "All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time."

-Julie Andrews.

43. "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.

44. "I hate the word wholesome."

-Julie Andrews.

44. "I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America."

-Julie Andrews.

45. "I am an optimistic lady."

-Julie Andrews.

46. "The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it."

-Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews Inspirational Quotes

Here is a list of inspirational quotes from Julie Andrews.

47. "It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that."

-Julie Andrews.

48. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

49. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

50. "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.

51. "Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me."

-Julie Andrews.

52. "I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."

-Julie Andrews.

53. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

54. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

55. "The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it."

-Julie Andrews.

56. "Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

59. "I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off."

-Julie Andrews.

60. "The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget."

-Julie Andrews.

61. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

62. "All love shifts and changes."

-Julie Andrews.

63. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

64. "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.

65. "I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew."

-Julie Andrews.

66. "Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect."

-Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews Quotes About Positive Living

67. "I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen."

-Julie Andrews.

68. "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.

69. "The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

71. "Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it."

-Julie Andrews.

72. "Children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them."

-Julie Andrews.

73. "I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home."

-Julie Andrews.

74. "A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web."

-Julie Andrews.

75. "Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly."

-Julie Andrews.

76. "Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside."

-Julie Andrews.

77. "I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."

-Julie Andrews.

78. "If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well."

-Julie Andrews.

79. "My husband knows me better than anyone."

-Julie Andrews.

80. "I've got a good right hook."

-Julie Andrews.

81. "In the old days it was important, but not as important as it is today, to keep making success after success after success."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

83. "I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."

-Julie Andrews.

84. "When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie."

-Julie Andrews.

85. "When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character."

-Julie Andrews.

86. "Singing has never been particularly easy for me."

-Julie Andrews.

87. "I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that."

-Julie Andrews.

88. "I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can."

-Julie Andrews.

89. "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."

-Julie Andrews.

90. "I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies."

-Julie Andrews.

91. "I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved."

-Julie Andrews.

92. "I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across."

-Julie Andrews.

93. "Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question."

-Julie Andrews.

94. "I don't want to be thought of as wholesome."

-Julie Andrews.

95. "I'm never lonely when I'm writing."

-Julie Andrews.

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

-Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews Quotes From 'The Sound Of Music.'

'The Sound Of Music' is a musical that Julie Andrews stars in. There is not a soul on earth who hasn't watched or heard of this movie. Here is a list of quotes by Maria who was played by none other than Julie Andrews herself.

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

- Maria.

98. "You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time."

- Maria.

99. "I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things, anything and everything I think and feel."

- Maria.

100. "I forgot the other boy. Oh, what's his name? Oh, well, God bless What's-his-name."

- Maria.

101. "Maria: But I don't have another one. When we entered the abbey our worldly clothes were given to the poor.

Captain von Trapp: What about this one?

Maria: The poor didn't want this one."

- Maria.

102. "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating."

- Maria.

103. "When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything."

- Maria.

103. "When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad."

- Maria.

105. "I go to the hills when my heart is lonely."

- Maria.

106. "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

- Maria.

107. "I have confidence in confidence alone."

- Maria.

108. "Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal."

- Maria.

Julie Andrews Movie Quotes

Julie Andrews has been cast in many versatile and wonderful roles for which she is deemed one of the best actresses. Here is a list of quotes from her famous movies.

109. "Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever."

-Catherine, 'One Special Night', 1999.

110. "I would like to make one thing quite clear...I never explain anything."

-'Mary Poppins', 1964.

111. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious."

-'Mary Poppins', 1964.

112. "Close your mouth, please, Michael, we are not a codfish."

-'Mary Poppins', 1964.

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