“John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.”

I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.

I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”

I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.

The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.

The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

I’m not like a high intellectual.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.