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I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.

Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

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

I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Doing voice work is also great because you don't have to get your hair done, which I despise.

You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.

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.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

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

I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

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.

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

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.