Julie Andrews Quotes

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

I want to just be what kids believe in.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

I'm such a kid at heart.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

I still feel inside like a little kid from Spokane with a dream.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.