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By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.

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I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

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I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

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I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

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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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I'm not very good with rap and things like that.

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

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I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

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The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

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I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of 'doo wah wahs,' if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them.

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I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

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I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

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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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I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

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I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

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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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Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

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I like - I actually love classical music very much.

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My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.

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I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.

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I think any director is intimidating.

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I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.

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I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

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I was always told I was not pretty enough.

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Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.

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Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

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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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I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.

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

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I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

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Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there.

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I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

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I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

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I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

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