I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.
I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.
That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.
I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.
One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.
I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.
But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.
I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into politics? And she actually does have a story there to tell about children. And so drawing that animating passion will do good.
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.