Voice Quotes by Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was “acting.” And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.

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Jim Cummings

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.’

Kids

Thinking

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Jim Cummings

It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, “You’re not meeting me, I’m meeting you.”

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Like You

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Jim Cummings

John Fiedler’s voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Comforting

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Wind Blowing

Jim Cummings

The established characters are easy to recall. I don’t know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It’s the one-time-only characters that I don’t remember where the voice I used came from.

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Voice Quotes by Jim Cummings

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.’

It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, “You’re not meeting me, I’m meeting you.”

John Fiedler’s voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

The established characters are easy to recall. I don’t know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It’s the one-time-only characters that I don’t remember where the voice I used came from.

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