John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting. Jim Cummings More Quotes by Jim Cummings More Quotes From Jim Cummings Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book. Jim Cummings knowsbook I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself. Jim Cummings madarguingrooms I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it. Jim Cummings blessedjobslong I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello. Jim Cummings regretbelieveyears I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence. Jim Cummings californiavoiceyears My agency tells me I am rare because I sing, do movie trailers, and do cartoons too. I like that because it gives me variety in jobs. I don't just sit and do movie trailers, and I don't just do cartoons either. I can do both, and I feel very fortunate for that. Jim Cummings agencyjobsgiving I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that. Jim Cummings actingreadingwar Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib. Jim Cummings adsducksfun Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey. Jim Cummings jarshoneysometimes I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook. Jim Cummings glassessweetthinking The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the one-time-only characters that I don't remember where the voice I used came from. Jim Cummings voicecharacterneeds I do all the better bears. Jim Cummings bears Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a delicacy. He was as cool as he could be, and ate dirty socks. Jim Cummings dustnightdirty I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell. Jim Cummings daughternext-weekschool I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too. Jim Cummings princessfalling-in-lovestars I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back. Jim Cummings cruisefilmstars I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation. Jim Cummings new-generationtorchesgenerations Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore. Jim Cummings hollywoodlastscouple Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke! Jim Cummings spokesstrangekind Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing. Jim Cummings arrogantall-timeknows
