Lesley Manville Quotes

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.

I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.

I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.