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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
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"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
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"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."
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"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
People
"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
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"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."
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"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."
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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
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"I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."
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