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 de…

- 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 …

- Tom Kenny

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 th…

- 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. H…

- 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 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

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 clo…

- Tom Kenny

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

- Tom Kenny

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

- Tom Kenny