Lucy Alibar Quotes

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.

In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.

With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.

The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

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

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

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.