Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks
Barbara Jane Horrocksis an English stage, film and television actress, voice artist, musician and singer, who played the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She was nominated for the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the title role in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations when she reprised the role in the 1998 film Little Voice. Her other film roles include The Witches, Life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 January 1964
I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
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 find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
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.
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.
Mimicking people was something I did already.
My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
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.
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.
Quiet, quiet people become intriguing when they're dramatized.
Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.
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.
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 found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.