Jodi Benson Quotes

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

It is so exciting to get a phone call saying you're going to be working on a Disney film.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.

I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.

When I do a voiceover now, there are always a few people I've borrowed bits off, whether it's their hats or facial hair, who'll say: 'That's so funny; it's obviously based on this guy.' You think, 'It ain't: it's you.' Actors never think characters are based on them.

'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.