I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.