Julie Andrews

My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

I did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.'

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off.

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.

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.

I'm resilient, and I'm professional.