Tom Kenny famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Jobs #Kids #Careers
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

#Brain #Instinct #Process
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

#People #Trying #Cameras
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

#Voice #Errors #Listening
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 Kenny

#Hard Work #Emotional #Role Models
You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.
-- Tom Kenny

#Real #Kind #Remember
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

#Class #Voice #People
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.
-- Tom Kenny

#Sweet #Character #Voice
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.
-- Tom Kenny

#Actors #Scripts #Driven
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

#Wise #Character #Kids

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