Steve Carell Quotes

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

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

After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

In 'Finding Nemo,' all of the voices were recorded separate - so I would be in a sound booth in a studio by myself reading the lines with just the director. Basically, you can just come in, and it doesn't matter what you are wearing or what you look like; it is all about how your voice sounds.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

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

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

After dubbing my lines for the first time, I'd say it's more difficult than performing in front of the camera.

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

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

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

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

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.

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.