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Tom Kenny Biography

Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian known for his long-running role as the title character in the SpongeBob SquarePants TV series, video games, and films. Kenny has voiced many other characters including Heffer Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life; the Ice King in Adventure Time; the Narrator and Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls; Carl Chryniszzswics in Johnny Bravo; Dog in CatDog; and Spyro from the Spyro the Dragon video game series. His live-action work includes the comedy variety shows The Edge and Mr. Show. Kenny has won two Annie Awards for his voice work as SpongeBob SquarePants and the Ice King.

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

Actor, Actors, Driven, Like, Script, Scripts

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.

Emotional, Hard Work, Highs, Lawnsprinkler, Role, Role Models

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

Kind, Life, Performers, Real, Remember

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.

Brain, Instinct, Instincts, Like, Process

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.

Adult, Careers, Invented, Jobs, Kids, Voiceover

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.

Cameras, Close, Love, People, Seeing, Trying

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

Character, Characters, Dumb, Sweet, Voice

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.

Class, Clown, People, Saying, Voice

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.

Errors, Impressionist, Listening, Thought, Voice

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.

Backpack, Character, Kids, Same, Sell, Wise