Quotes About Career

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on 'The Wonder Years,' people said, 'Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there's a 7 Up thing...' And then I got to do 'Dilbert.' I think my voice kind of fit for that.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.

I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.

Thank God for voiceover work.

I have a small entourage of people who I trust. I value their opinion on my career. And I stick to those voices. The rest is just background noise.

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.

Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could be transformed into something.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.

It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.

I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

I'm losing money by being here. But in the long run, we're happy we chose to stay. I would not be helping American volleyball if I was over in Italy.

For lack of a better calling, I just figured my dad's a doctor. He seems to enjoy what he does, so I had my eye on playing volleyball in college, maybe a tiny bit after, but then going to medical school and becoming a doctor.

Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.

I'm not going to play volleyball until the retirement age.

There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.