Lesley Manville Quotes

It all started when I was 11 months old, singing a song by Jodeci in the back seat of the car. My mother turned around and said, 'Who is that?' When she saw it was me, she said, 'I think we have a singer on our hands.'

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

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

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

Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.

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.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

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.

Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

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

Yes, I am a good singer.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

I never was a very good singer.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.