Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

Anais Nin

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

Amanda Seyfried

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

Anne Dudley

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Carson

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Anne Hathaway

I love employment, and it's never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.

Anita Roddick

You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.

Anita Roddick

Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

Chuck D.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Christopher Walken

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

Christopher Paolini

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

Christopher Paolini

As he was about to leave, she said, "Murtagh." He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "Why?" She though he understood her meaning: Why her? Why save her, and now why try to rescue her? She had guessed at the answer, but she wanted to hear him say it. He stared at her for the longest while, and then, in a low, hard voice, he said, "You know why.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I don't deliver it right?" Until you start saying the lines, it's always nerve-wracking, for some reason, and I've never gotten over that.

Angelina Jolie

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

Andrea Riseborough

I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

Annette Bening

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?

Anne Parillaud

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Anne Rice

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

Anna Julia Cooper

It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

Anna Deavere Smith

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Andrew Solomon

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Andre Malraux

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

Andrew Dice Clay

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

Ambrose Bierce

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

Anthony Hopkins

The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

Alice Smith

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

Alice Walker

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Alice Hoffman

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Anne Lamott

I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Amy Winehouse

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.

Alyson Stoner

Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.

Afrika Bambaataa

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.