Tom Kenny Quotes & Sayings

There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV. — Tom Kenny

I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error. — Tom Kenny

SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler ... SpongeBob is bipolar. — Tom Kenny

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process. — Tom Kenny

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason. — Tom Kenny

Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get. — Tom Kenny

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. — Tom Kenny

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. — Tom Kenny

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. — Tom Kenny

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me. — Tom Kenny

Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit. — Tom Kenny