Maria Bamford Quotes

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

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

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

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

Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.

I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

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

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

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.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

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

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.