Tom Kenny quotes
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“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 KennySource : "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.
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“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 KennySource : "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.
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“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 KennySource : "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.
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“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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“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.”
-- Tom KennySource : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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“You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.”
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“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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“I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.”
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“A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.”
-- Tom KennySource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“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 KennySource : Source: www.avclub.com
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