Quotes

[on singing the Oh Sing Sweet Nightingale music number for the Cinderella film] It was such a beautiful sequence, Cinderella scrubbing the floor and each time a soap bubble would rise with another image of Cinderella, so would another voice. When we heard the finished product, Walt kidded, ‘How about that? All of these years I’ve been paying three salaries for the Andrews Sisters, when I could have only paid one for you!’

I learned a very good lesson, never pass up doing a good deed for friends!

[on being praised by Walt Disney for voicing Cinderella] Once I went into his[Walt Disney’s] office and he said to me, ‘You’re my favorite heroine, you know.’ I said, ‘You mean Cinderella?’ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘there’s something about that story I associate with.’ I think it was the rags-to-riches tale, of course, then I didn’t know how many times Walt had risked it all to realize his dreams.