Priyamani Quotes

After dubbing my lines for the first time, I'd say it's more difficult than performing in front of the camera.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

I don't really look at dubbing from a singer's shoes.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

I want to get into voice-overs.

Dubbing is an important part of acting, and I feel complete only when it's my voice that is heard. Having essayed the character, I know the kinds of emotions that are required for each scene.

You can make or break a picture in the dubbing room.

I've been dubbing my own lines in Tamil for some time now.

I've dubbed for all my films, including 'Ghajini.'

I don't like the term 'voice-over.'

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'

It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.

I've started getting into quite a bit of voice work, definitely from 'Battlestar.'

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.