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Julie Harris
American
Actress
About the author
You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Dress
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Museums
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Responsibility
#Hair
I would loathe to work on modern films.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Work
It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Eye
#Work
#Will
#Clothes
John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Film
#Friends
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Day
#Production
#Women
#Speech
Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Songs
#Work
#Clothes
Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Men
#Clothes
#Ladies
#Actors
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Time
#Film
#Luck
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Film
#Hollywood
#Day
That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#People
#Today
#Stars
I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Film
But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#People
#Pretty
#Clothes
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Clothes
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#God
#Play
#Humanity
#Painting
#Theater
#Ballet
I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Possession
#Football
I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Clothes
I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Work
#Hard work
#Budgets
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Film
I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Film
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Money
I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Love
#Living
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
Julie Harris,
American
Actress
#Time
#Right
#Life
#Being
#Job