Tom Kenny Quotes

#1. Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Tom Kenny

#3. The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

Rachel Joyce

#4. 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.

Tom Kenny

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

Tom Kenny

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

Tom Kenny

#7. Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'

Ann Coulter

#8. 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.

Tom Kenny

#9. 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.

Tom Kenny

#10. 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.

Tom Kenny

#11. What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

William Albert Allard

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

Tom Kenny

#13. 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

#14. 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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#15. I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

Facundo Pieres

#16. Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Ethan Suplee

#17. 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.

Tom Kenny

#18. Embrace the sacredness of a new day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

Wayne Knight

#20. 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.

Tom Kenny