Debra Stephenson Quotes

Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

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

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.

I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills... I was not good at it.

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.

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

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

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 enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

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.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

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

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

Acting and singing are integrally locked together.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

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.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

Doing audiobooks is kind of an actor's dream because you get to play all the parts.