Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don’t have to shave when I go to work.
BOB BERGENDespite the fact that wanted to voice aclassic character, a majority of my day-to-day is not Porky Pig.
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All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it’s all about character and personality.
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Despite the fact that wanted to voice aclassic character, a majority of my day-to-day is not Porky Pig.
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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.
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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.
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Mel Blanc passed away in ’89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.
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I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I’m a total foodie.
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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.
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I’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.
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Most people who go into show business want to go into show business.
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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.
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I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
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You’re Jewish! I don’t think she realized what I wanted to do with the pig…I didn’t want to eat him, I wanted to voice him.
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I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in “Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2” but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
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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.
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So everytime I’m asked to do it – and nine out of ten “Looney Tunes” shows ends with Porky coming out saying “That’s all folks” – I’ll say to them, which one do you want?
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