“I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.”

Most people who go into show business want to go into show business.

I’m fortunate in that I’m what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there’s five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality [and] I can supply those characters.

And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.

I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school.

I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t do it, other than living in the midwest.

I’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.

Once you prove yourself, that you’re a utility player, they’re going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

A good product can last forever.

Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Things last so much longer than people.

Live everyday as though it’s your last ’cause one day you’ll be right.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.