"I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing."

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Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

Lesley Garrett

#Voice Quotes #Support Quotes #Singing Quotes

“We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.”
“By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]”
“A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.”
“Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.”
“Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists”
“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
“Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.”

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