Bob Bergen Quotes
For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.
Quotes to Explore
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Professional competitions are overrated.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
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I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
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When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.
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The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
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Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
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There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
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There are only one or two geniuses every century.
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Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you're not. Don't get me wrong - I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I'm feeling insecure today, I'll move on tomorrow. I'd tell girls to realise it's OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.
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If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
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There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending money and being paid. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. These are things we do. I just think it's important to look at them from a different perspective - to see how bizarre and banal these rituals we partake in are. It's just important to think about them, I think, and to carry on. Life is about retrospection, and I think that goes for every facet of life.
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
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I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!
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For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.
