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

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.

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.

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