Quotes About Mel Blanc

#1. When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.

Jesse McCartney

#2. Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

Bob Bergen

#3. 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.

Jim Cummings

#4. 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.

Tom Kenny

#5. There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Jack Benny

#6. Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

John Kricfalusi

#7. I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

Harry Shearer

#8. Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.

Nicolas Cage

#9. I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

Jim Cummings

#10. I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

Billy West

#11. Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

Roger Ebert

#12. You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Anne Lamott

#13. Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt.

Mel Blanc

#14. That's all folks!

Mel Blanc

#15. The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

Neale Donald Walsch

#16. The Man of a Thousand Voices

Mel Blanc

#17. You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

Anne Fadiman

#18. Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.

Raymond E. Feist

#19. Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

Ruth Padel

#20. {Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.}

Yuval Noah Harari

#21. Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

Mel Blanc

#22. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.