Words matter. These are the best Rachel Tucker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on ‘The Black and White Minstrel’ Shows.
I like surprising my audiences, and it’s compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn’t hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don’t think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, ‘Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you’ve got to do your job.’
All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We’d sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
‘We Will Rock You’ is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.
I’d been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
I can be very ordinary looking.
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don’t want to be your umpteenth Fantine in ‘Les Miz.’
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me ’round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn’t believe what was coming out of this little girl.