Eliza Doolittle Quotes

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.

Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

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

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.