The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
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 BERGENI studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school.
BOB BERGENI feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I’ve been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
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 BERGENMost people who go into show business want to go into show business.
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 BERGENMel Blanc passed away in ’89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.
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 BERGENI 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.
BOB BERGENAll characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it’s all about character and personality.
BOB BERGENDespite the fact that wanted to voice aclassic character, a majority of my day-to-day is not Porky Pig.
BOB BERGENI’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.
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 BERGENI 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.
BOB BERGENOnce 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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