Mike Judge Quotes

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I don't do impressions.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

I love doing impersonations of people.

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

I love doing impressions.

Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.

I didn't change my voice for 'The Boondocks.'

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.

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.

I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice. Think of Daffy Duck. I mean, what the heck? I was playing around with the Daffy Duck voice today when I was coming back from driving my kid to school.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

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.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

The voice for 'Surly' is, of course, very close to my own voice, but it's informed a lot by this story, by the arc and the animation and working with the whole creative team on 'The Nut Job' in finding what really works.