Blair Underwood Quotes

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

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

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

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.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

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 know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

I want to get into voice-overs.

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

If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta find the different places and do your different things.

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

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

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

I've dubbed for the likes of Rabi Ghose, Anup Kumar, Anil Chatterjee, Asrani, Ranjit Mallick, among others.

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

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

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

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

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.

Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.