Jane Horrocks Quotes

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

I feel like I need to sing again.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.

I can't imagine life without singing.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

If you've got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.

Drag is a chicken suit, and you're very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there's a lot of freedom.

I feel freedom in singing and performing.

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.