Steven Blum Quotes

I enjoy voicing even though I am not a voice-over artist.

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

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

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

A lot people ask me, 'How do I become a voice actor?' and, well, first of all, drop the 'voice' because you don't know what mechanics you'll have to employ. If you can just focus on the acting, then the rest will come.

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

I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

I write, but I also act.

I've auditioned for animation stuff for a long time; that's a tough field to crack into. I don't think I have the strongest voice. I don't have a theater-trained voice or a radio voice, but I think I make good character choices.

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

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

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

Some people compose their thoughts in front of a typewriter but I find that I am better at composing my thoughts in front of an audience.

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

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.

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.

Doing audiobooks is kind of an actor's dream because you get to play all the parts.