Kassie DePaiva Quotes

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

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

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

I'm a great singer.

I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

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

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I'd love to be on 'Glee.' I'd love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

I think good acting is always character acting.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.

Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'

Singing in character you can be more of a show off or more modest because it isn't yourself it's a nice way to sing, unusual, a bit like being in musical I guess.

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.