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.
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.
In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.
You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.
I've got a good right hook.
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.
Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
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.
Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.
I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
