Javed Ali Quotes

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

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

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

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

I do more singing than dubbing.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

I want to get into voice-overs.

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

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

A lot of times when people cast me, they want this big, deep black voice... And I tend to recycle them with different roles from time to time.

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

I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

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.

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

I have sung all the songs in '96,' and I have dubbed for the film as well.