Dan Castellaneta Quotes

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

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.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on 'The Wonder Years,' people said, 'Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there's a 7 Up thing...' And then I got to do 'Dilbert.' I think my voice kind of fit for that.

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

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

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

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

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'

I'm very lucky. I do voiceovers, 'Family Guy,' on and on, and quite frankly, I'm one of the luckiest actors in the world. I was able to create a character who became iconic.

I had no intention of ever doing voice-overs. I wasn't opposed to them; I just didn't have any particular knowledge of how or why people do that.

I'm hoping to have a huge future in voice-overs. For years, people have said, 'I recognized your voice before I recognized your face!'

I'm usually the bad guy, you know, but I do a lot of different genres of acting.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I love voiceover work.

I hope through 'The Family Man,' I get some good offers.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.

When I was moving to New York in 1994, I saw an ad in the paper that said, 'Do You Measure Up To Be A Muppet?' I answered the ad and soon after met John Henson, who brought me in to understudy him for a real version of the computer generated Coca-Cola Polar Bear.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.