Mel Blanc Quotes:

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

- Jack Benny

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, People, Hollywood, Mel Blanc

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. To me, he's a great actor.

- Nicolas Cage

source: "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

topic: Brother, Hero, Pigs, Mel Blanc, Warner Brothers

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

- Roger Ebert

topic: Voice, Bunnies, Bugs, Mel Blanc

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

- Bob Bergen

topic: Jobs, Pigs, Firsts, Mel Blanc

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

- Billy West

source: The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

topic: Voice, Doing Me, Said, Mel Blanc

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

topic: Sides, Next, Used, Mel Blanc

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

source: "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Kids, Careers, Mel Blanc

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

topic: Kids, Thinking, Voice, Mel Blanc, Ventriloquism