- People
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the hardest for me. It doesn't come as naturally as the other forms, and I feel far more dread during the process. Acting and voice acting are more mercurial and maybe come a little easier to me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voice actors I used to know who were starting out in comedy were guys who did a lot of voices. They were usually comedy actors who developed their comedy by doing tons of impressions and voices that were usually very funny. And I never did any of that, so that's, I guess, why I don't consider myself a voice actor.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate's voice.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I heard my voice, like listen to myself playing it back-to-back, I just want to always perfect it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
- Different Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020