Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I'm a very emotional singer and songwriter.

They're odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people's lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.