Barbara Sukowa Quotes

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

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

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

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

I'm not the best singer.

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

I can't sing, so... I don't know if I will be doing any musicals.

I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

I don't really think of myself as an actor.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

I can't act without music very well.