Emily Blunt Quotes

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before 'Glee.'

A couple of weeks ago, I did karaoke and got nervous in a way I hadn't gotten nervous in 25 years. I'm so used to getting on stage in front of strangers to tell jokes, but singing is a whole different animal.

I don't know why, but I'm more intimidated by sharing my singing than just performing as an actress.

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

I've never really had the confidence to sing in front of people; then, I got into acting.

Me and my dad used to go to these jam sessions and open mic nights, but I was always scared of singing on stage. It felt different to rapping - more pressured.

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.

I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.