- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voice Quotes
Every voice carries something different.
These lines move between the literal — a performer's range and technique — and the personal, like speaking up for people who feel unheard. For more first-person reflection, see our Me quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom has a very high-pitched voice, and there are some similarities between her and the voice I use on 'Big Bang,' although my mom has the Jersey accent, so I took that out. But the tone of the voice is very similar to my mother's.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020