Words matter. These are the best Voice-Over Quotes from famous people such as Lake Bell, Diedrich Bader, Stephen Hillenburg, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adam Brody, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to be one of the great voice-over artists.’
Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it’s all I’d ever do.
On TV, it is more efficient to use voice-over people because it is really hard to get celebrity voices to recur in a series.
I love doing voice-over. It’s so fun.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn’t sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.
I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn’t.
Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.
I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
‘Taxi Driver’ is one of those films that is groundbreaking in how much you’re inside this character’s head. It uses voice-over in a revolutionary way where the audience is invited as a co-conspirator to the whole story line.
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character’s voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
I always hear I have the voice-over voice.
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
I haven’t done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I’m hoping to do more in the future.
If I’m doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I’m doing three different voices, you’ve gotta separate them. You’ve gotta find the different places and do your different things.
‘Pi’ was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way.
I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on ‘The Facts of Life’ to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
‘Writing’ is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
One of the things that I’m realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It’s awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn’t interfere with much.
I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes… but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
I remember seeing ‘Aladdin’ when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, ‘Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.’ Mum said I couldn’t be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, ‘OK, then, I want to be an actor.’
