Michelle Dockery Quotes

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

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

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

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

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.

Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

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.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

I can't act without music very well.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.