Salman Rushdie Quotes

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

I love to listen to books on tape.

Doing audiobooks is kind of an actor's dream because you get to play all the parts.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

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

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

I'm known for impressions and family stories.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

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

As a young girl, I loved having stories read to me. There is something magical about narration and voiceovers. Recording a voiceover is an art form in itself.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

As an actor, I trust my ear.