Thurl Ravenscroft Quotes

It's easy to remember. That's part of the reason why it's never surprised me or bothered me that somebody doesn't know my real name. What's easier to remember: Danielle Fishel or Topanga? Topanga sticks with you.

Everybody I see, that's the first thing they think of when they see me: 'WHUUUUUT?' or 'YEEEAAAHHH!' But they don't realize that everybody and their grandmother says that to me.

I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.

You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box.

I've always been quite famous for my nose.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.

I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.