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I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

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.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

Beginnings are always hard.

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

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

I've got a good right hook.

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

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.

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

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.

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

All love shifts and changes ...

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

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

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

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

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.

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

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

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

I am an optimistic lady.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

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

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.

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

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

After all, children are children no matter their background.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

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

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

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

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.