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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years QUOTES

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years QUOTES

1 " Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics---and the way they touch one's heart and soul "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

2 " I’ve come to realize that home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am. "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

3 " Karen, who played Jane, was only seven years old, but was calm and sweet, and had perfect manners. Her father, Roy Dotrice, was a well-known English actor, so Karen had been schooled in performance etiquette. "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

4 " suddenly remembered that when I portrayed Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on Broadway, I unconsciously toed-in, giving the flower girl a slightly pigeon-toed lack of grace in her clumsy boots, then I straightened my feet when she acquired confidence and poise as a “lady.” It made me smile to think I was doing the exact opposite for Mary Poppins. "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

5 " Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics---and the way they touch one's heart and soul. "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

6 " I know that I am—all that I am.
And all that I am
is full and ripe.
 
All that I am is standing still,
waiting and watching
and bursting with life.
 
Holding the straining seams of my skin,
my passion and wit
and my sanity in.
 
Waiting for someone
to soothe and to say
“I understand. You’re home. "

― Julie Andrews Edwards , Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years