Leonard Nimoy Quotes

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

My mother always said I was singing before I was speaking. I came to this world to sing, and I feel very fortunate, because I am able to do that.

The good lord gave me a very unusual voice, and gave me the opportunity to learn how to use it.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.

I've been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don't want to take that for granted.

I've been so blessed to have the career I have had, so each and every shoot and job is a privilege for me to be at.

Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.

The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or color.

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.

I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of.

I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.