“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.”

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.

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.

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

You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it’s not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

There’s a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it’s written, and there really is order.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.

I’m not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.