D. B. Sweeney Quotes

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on 'The Wonder Years,' people said, 'Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there's a 7 Up thing...' And then I got to do 'Dilbert.' I think my voice kind of fit for that.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

I had done some acting in high school. I was terrible.

It's a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the '80s. And then all the animation - animation is amazing. It's really been great.

The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

I did voice work for many years before I started having success as an actress. It was mostly radio and television voiceover work, but I know my way around the studio. I know how to use the cappuccino machines and the headphones.

I'm hoping to have a huge future in voice-overs. For years, people have said, 'I recognized your voice before I recognized your face!'

I never had an acting lesson.