Mel Blanc Quotes

• There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

  Jack Benny

  Real, People, Hollywood

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Hero, Pigs

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

  Roger Ebert

  Voice, Bunnies, Bugs

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• Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

  Bob Bergen

  Jobs, Pigs, Firsts

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

  Billy West

  Voice, Doing Me, Said

  The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

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• I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

  Harry Shearer

  Next, Sides, Used

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Kids, Careers

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

  Jim Cummings

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

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