Andrea Martin Quotes

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

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

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

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.

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

I've started getting into quite a bit of voice work, definitely from 'Battlestar.'

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

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!'

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

I do voicework all the time.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

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

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

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

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

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 voice-over. It's so fun.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals.

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