Quotes About Expression

No matter what age you are, your voice should be heard, and you can develop a passion for something and be an activist in your own right, in your own field, for something you feel strongly about.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Don't hole up in your apartment and just write jokes, be a real human being and develop your own voice. Then you will be undeniable.

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.

Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

Those who are not trained singers will find that their voice quavers. That should not happen. The quaver should be used only where necessary and not because a singer cannot hold a note or a tune.

I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

Subtle Pride is an improvisational voice band.

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China.

I have got a lot of appreciation from people and they really like my voice in Sufi songs, so I will continue with that, but I'm also experimenting with other types of songs.

I still believe that the voice as well as the body express a song together - that's my philosophy of performing a song.

I did sing a track for Dhanush's '3,' but that's because the track required a voice like mine.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'

I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

I always hear I have the voice-over voice.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

I enjoy voicing even though I am not a voice-over artist.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.