Julie London Quotations

He had good judgment in more than one way. The President was a marvelous man to perform to because he was interested in music of all kinds.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

I think what I project would be my style.

I think they belong in school, but after they have achieved all the education that they need and want, it's up to them what they want to do.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

On a television show such as The Bob Hope Show or The Garry Moore Show, all the gowns have to be brand-new, never been seen before.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

If I'm doing a good song with a good arrangement, I have a ball doing it. And if it's the opposite, I'm just as bored with that.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.