Tom Kenny Quotes

#1. A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

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#2. There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.

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#3. I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

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#4. I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

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#5. I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

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#6. Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

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#7. He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

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#8. You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

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#9. Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

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#10. SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler ... SpongeBob is bipolar.

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#11. I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.

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#12. People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

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