- Laughter is the best medicine, the coolest thing is you can't OD and the refills are free!
- [on voicing two Ninja turtles in two incarnations of the show] I'm a two time turtle baby, and I figure if I live to be a hundred I can knock all four of them out.
- [When asked who was his biggest influence] The first one of course would have to be probably Mel Blanc because I loved cartoons as a kid as we all did. Mel I think set the standard. Mel and Frank Welker, as far as I'm concerned, are the two best who've ever walked the face of the earth with respect to voice acting.
- Richard Stone was a genius and I know that word gets banded around a lot but he really was...He was not only a genius but he was a genius at just being a person. He was a world-class human.
- I wish I had a nickel for every time I've sang "Yakko's World".
- The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
- I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.
- I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.
- The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.
- Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully (2006) did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
- I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.
- I'm a golf nut!
- The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.
- It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed?
- One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.
- I have to be careful, I don't want this to sound like sour grapes, but Cameron Diaz's role in the Shrek movies didn't require her manipulating her voice. I think I heard her say, 'this is a gift in terms of doing a gig.' I don't think anyone could have a problem with the producer spending his money any way he wants to. If he wants to spend $100 million on his movie and give $99 million of it to Cameron, I have no problem with that. But I venture to say any decent actress could've done her part. Not because she's not a good actress, but because it didn't require manipulating her voice. You could hire Tress MacNeille, April Winchell, Tara Strong, how many different actresses, Nancy Cartwright? They'd give you not only the princess, but six or seven other completely different characters, and do it for just $50 million. They could tap dance on her vocally.
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