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.
BOB BERGENI studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school.
More Bob Bergen Quotes
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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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I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
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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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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 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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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.
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I love cooking and I love traveling and I love finding new places to eat and new cuisines to eat. Don’t be shocked if you see me munching down on a baby back rib.
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I’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.
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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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Despite the fact that wanted to voice aclassic character, a majority of my day-to-day is not Porky Pig.
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Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.
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Most people who go into show business want to go into show business.
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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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I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school.
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The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
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