Jodi Benson Quotes

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.

When Tim and I first discussed the part in 2003, he told me, 'I'd love for you to play five Oompas.' But five Oompas quickly turned into 165 - and they're not computerized; I did each one individually myself.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

As an actor, I always wondered what it would be like to watch an animated character with your voice behind it and see if it seems seamless or if it seems like your voice is isolated from the animation.

To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' - actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

On an animated television series, you pretty much read the script as written. Whereas on an animated feature, you'll sometimes record the same scene multiple times over the course of a year as the filmmakers continue to tweak that part of the movie.