Top 60 Julie Andrews Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

— Julie Andrews

2. “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and – SNAP – the job’s a game!”

— Julie Andrews

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3. “Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.”

— Julie Andrews

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

— Julie Andrews

5. “If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside.”

— Julie Andrews

6. “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

7. “Leave everything you do, every place you go, everything you touch a little better for your having been there.”

— Julie Andrews

8. “Beginnings are always hard.”

— 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. “It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.”

— Julie Andrews

11. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

— Julie Andrews

12. “I’m never lonely when I’m writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.”

— Julie Andrews

13. “After all, children are children no matter their background.”

— Julie Andrews

14. “I’ve never minded being disciplined. I’d always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.”

— Julie Andrews

15. “If you’re passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly. 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

16. “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

17. “When adversity hits, go out and learn something.”

— Julie Andrews

18. “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

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19. “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

20. “Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.”

— Julie Andrews

21. “Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.”

— Julie Andrews

22. “I am an optimistic lady.”

— Julie Andrews

23. “The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.”

— Julie Andrews

24. “The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can’t go wrong.”

— Julie Andrews

25. “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 out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”

— Julie Andrews

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

— Julie Andrews

27. “As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.”

— Julie Andrews

28. “Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It’s only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I’ll look back and say, ‘God, wasn’t it wonderful.’”

— Julie Andrews

29. “Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?”

— Julie Andrews

30. “As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.”

— Julie Andrews

31. “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

32. “I’ve got a good right hook.”

— Julie Andrews

33. “I’m more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I’m less uptight. I’ve even reached a stage where it doesn’t shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.”

— Julie Andrews

34. “For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I’m hopeless at singing songs that don’t have a core.”

— Julie Andrews

35. “Well it’s all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...”

— Julie Andrews

36. “Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.”

— Julie Andrews

37. “Singing has never been particularly easy for me.”

— Julie Andrews

38. “I think it’s the essence of any film and any stage production – any work where you do work with other people – of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.”

— Julie Andrews

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I don’t want to be thought of as wholesome.”

— Julie Andrews

42. “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.”

— Julie Andrews

43. “I can’t believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.”

— Julie Andrews

44. “I’d like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.”

— Julie Andrews

45. “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

46. “Mary Poppins is magical and fun.”

— Julie Andrews

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47. “I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it’s okay if it brings across a point.”

— Julie Andrews

48. “Dear Lady Gaga, thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!”

— Julie Andrews

49. “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

50. “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