Julie Andrews Quotes

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I'm a hopeful romantic. In a couple of drinks, I'll be a lucky romantic. That's why they call me Mr. Lucky.