I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.
I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.
The arts need funding.
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.
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.
Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
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.
I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
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.
You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
I've got a good right hook.
I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.
I think any director is intimidating.
I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.
I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.
I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
