Frank Welker Quotes

United States, Voice Actor
March 12, 1946

Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as Fred Jones from the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception and as the voice of Scooby-Doo since 2002. He is also known as the voice of Megatron in the Transformers franchise, and as the voice and vocal effects of Nibbler on Futurama.

I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.

Frank Welker
- School
- High
- Senior
Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

Frank Welker
- Good

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

Frank Welker
- People
- Up
- Long
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.

Frank Welker
- Up
- Character
- Attitude
I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

Frank Welker
- Words
I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

Frank Welker
- Alone
One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Frank Welker