LeVar Burton Quotes

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

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 want to get into voice-overs.

I do voicework all the time.

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

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

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

I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.

It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.

I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.

Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and you never really meet the other characters.

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.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I have been doing voice work my entire life, and I adore it. It is really rewarding stuff.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

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.

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

I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

I love voiceover. I never understood this idea that it was lazy. Well, yes, there are those movies or TV shows that use it as just a way to get out exposition. But you know what? That's just bad writing.

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

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

Doing voice work is more like recording music that people are going to listen to. You're creating an oral experience using whatever bells and whistles you have in your voice, and you can shut your eyes and use your imagination and nobody's going to see if the faces you make don't match the voices you make. That's a lot of fun.

I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you're doing, it's simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos - you don't have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.