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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbage.' It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice. It's more like the voice of the guy next door.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into music from a very early age, and I was also - I don't really talk about this that much - really into horses. I learned a lot about rhythm and about voice from that.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020