Pippa Evans Quotes

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

Oh, you wouldn't want to hear me sing.

On family trips and vacations, I remember walking around with my little sister and making funny songs on the spot.

Most of my memories are of softball games in Falls Church with my sister, yard sales across town on the weekends with my grandma, grocery-shopping and errand-running with my mom, learning to drive an old Volkswagen bug down Old Keene Mill Road with my dad.

I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay.

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when I was a kid.

Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I'd go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom's Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.

In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

My first experience with the arts must have been the sound of my mother singing to me when I was in the womb. The sound of my father singing to me when he held me. The sound of The Temptations records that they played.

The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

I really made the cartoon Life with Louie with one reason in mind: I didn't have a very good relationship with my dad, and we didn't all watch TV together like we should've, like you hope for, like you've seen on TV, and I wanted to make it for moms and dads and their kids. That was always my goal. And then I wanted to put real things in it. We did a thing about the homeless and won a Humanitas award for that.

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.