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

- Julie Andrews

I am an optimistic lady.

- Julie Andrews

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

- Julie Andrews

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

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

- Julie Andrews

I hate the word wholesome.

- Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

- Julie Andrews

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

- Julie Andrews

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

- Julie Andrews

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

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

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

- Julie Andrews

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

- Julie Andrews

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.

- Julie Andrews

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

- Julie Andrews

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

- Julie Andrews

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.

- Julie Andrews

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

- Julie Andrews

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

- Julie Andrews

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

- Julie Andrews