Voice Identity Quotes

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.

I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, that's what you aim for.

I was working out at a gym in Montreal when I was doing 'The Bone Collector.' I walked in and said 'Where do I sign in?' Somebody behind me, without even seeing my face, said 'Excuse me, are you on 'Star Trek'?' They recognized me from my voice.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

I hate hearing my voice on the radio.

If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna know my voice for singing. But if I call you on the phone - 'What's up? Are we still doing the interview today?' - you're not gonna know who this is.

It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.

Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my singing voice, I don't feel any dysphoria with my talking voice.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

Vocally, I sound like my mom. I don't think I can help it. That's just my natural voice.

I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.

I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it.