Debra Stephenson Quotes

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

Every night on stage it gets more and more comfortable. I think it really shows in the performances and just being able to revel in it and do it and live the dream I've thought about for so long.

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

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

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

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

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

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

It's quite different to do a vocal performance, opposed to a performance where you are seen, because in some ways, you don't need to worry about what you look like - you don't have to sit in a makeup chair for a long time!

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of public events as well, though there is a huge difference in my performances today and the ones from my childhood, as earlier, I used to sing bhajans.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

If you asked me to go on stage now, even to do karaoke, I'd fall apart. I'm far more comfortable getting stuck into a fight.

On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

There can be inhibitions, but there are millions of people who like to sing.