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- Nov 07, 2020
Voice Quotes
Every voice carries something different.
These lines move between the literal — a performer's range and technique — and the personal, like speaking up for people who feel unheard. For more first-person reflection, see our Me quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd say, 'Because I'm a songwriter, not a puppet.' Even if I won and became really successful off a show like that, I'd be miserable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a little voice in my head worried that I didn't have the know-how or the experience to reach for an exciting opportunity.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
- Irritating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020