Javed Jaffrey Quotes

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had some kids and they asked me if I would mind doing it. I was very happy to do it. That's where I got my training before I went to the public. I did that for several years. It was actually the best vocal training I could have had.

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun.

Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.

I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

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

I love doing voiceover work.

I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!

In 'Finding Nemo,' all of the voices were recorded separate - so I would be in a sound booth in a studio by myself reading the lines with just the director. Basically, you can just come in, and it doesn't matter what you are wearing or what you look like; it is all about how your voice sounds.

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

I think, to a degree, I'm maybe more suited for voice work. And I don't just mean my face and body. Because maybe there's something about what I do that just, for some reason, is better to just hear me.

There's nothing better than voicing a character. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing; you've got the script in front of you, and it doesn't involve your body: it's all about your voice, and it's really fast work.

I think I'm going to be taking some voice lessons because I'd like to do a voice in a video game. Something like 'Call of Duty.'

To be honest, there is a special gift for doing voice-overs, and the people who did the voices in the 'SpongeBob' cast are excellent at cartoon voice-overs, and they bring something extra to the reads.

In my career, I have done more than a thousand voice-overs in commercials, cartoons, and radio shows, so I'm very familiar of my voice capabilities and its range.

Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.

It's a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.

You play because you love it, not because you can make money from it.

I always hear I have the voice-over voice.

Modeling is really what I do during my free time. It's fun for me, so it doesn't feel like work. I choose to do it.

I am also a voice over artist, so I always like to dub myself.

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