I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I’m a total foodie.
BOB BERGENI love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I’m a total foodie.
BOB BERGENAll characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it’s all about character and personality.
BOB BERGENI’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.
BOB BERGENMost people who go into show business want to go into show business.
BOB BERGENI studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school.
BOB BERGENYou’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 BERGENWould 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 BERGENThe voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
BOB BERGENI’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.
BOB BERGENFor 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.
BOB BERGENSo 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?
BOB BERGENFortunately, 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.
BOB BERGENAnd it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.
BOB BERGENMel Blanc passed away in ’89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.
BOB BERGENI 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.
BOB BERGENI feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
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