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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 don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."

"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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