Laura Benanti Quotes

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

I do have musical background; I sing.

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer.

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

I'm not a singer. I've sung in character, but it's just not my thing.

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

I wish I sang better.

Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

I'm not that much of a singer.

If in the first 30 seconds, a comedian cannot bring a smile to your face, he is not an entertainer.

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.