Branigan Quotes

#1. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

Gore Vidal

#2. I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

Laura Branigan

#3. It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Jolene Blalock

#4. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

Matt Berninger

#5. The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

Ken Marino

#6. Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life ... harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

Michael Crummey

#7. When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

Laura Branigan

#8. I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

Laura Branigan

#9. I want a place where I can have horses.

Laura Branigan

#10. All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Megan Hart

#11. (Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

Laura Branigan

#12. I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird' ... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Harper Lee

#13. As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

Fergie