Wallace Shawn Quotes

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

Singing is a gift.

My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.

I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

I'm a great singer.

I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

There's a lot of great singers out here.

I can't say I'm a singer - I'm an actress who can sing.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

It's something that I've always done. I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson. I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio - never had a vocal lesson in my life.

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

Singing was never my thing.

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.