Hank Azaria Quotes

I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

I do voicework all the time.

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

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

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

I've been called 'the voice actor.'

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 haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.

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.

There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!

It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.

I love doing voiceover work.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing.