66 Quotes by Virginia Madsen

They were made up names in Dune that I didn’t know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn’t read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater – I loved all those old radio plays.

I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film. I like her voice a lot – it didn’t surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life – and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

It’s almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male – so I wanted to be them.

In animation, there’s silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn’t read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.

I always tell actors, “Don’t think of it as unemployment when you don’t have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job.” You have to be always preparing for success.