I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.

Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.

For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.

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