Leslie Mann Quotes

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.

I don't really strain my voice.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

The first thing I will say about looking after your voice is get a pair of in-ear monitors because one of the most common problems singers have is trying to hear themselves on stage.

Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.