English - Actress | October 1, 1935 -
Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.
Julie Andrews
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The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.
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Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.
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I was a very sad little girl.
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My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.
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You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
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Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.
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When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that.
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Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'
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Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
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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.
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All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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