All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

I've been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Progress is hard on history.

Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'