I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.
Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.
When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice.
I have got a big deep voice, and that comes in useful for villains.
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
All my life I have faced this awkwardness, as I almost sound like a guy. In fact, whenever I would call my friends, their dads would say, 'Hold on son.'
In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.
To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important.
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
