Voice quotes

“The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it's not shouting. Even when it's just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard over armies... when it's telling the truth.”
Earl Cameron - Zuwanie

“- Vanessa Bloome: It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice.
- Barry B. Benson: It's not a tone, I'm panicking!”
Renee Zellweger - Vanessa Bloome
Jerry Seinfeld - Barry B. Benson

“The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.”
Rebecca Hall

“What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?”
Jean Hagen - Lina Lamont

“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”
Stella Adler

“- Bobby: If I was no good, why did you steal my fucking voice? Huh?
- Jack: Cause you had nothing to fucking say.”
Sam Elliott - Bobby
Bradley Cooper - Jack

“- Bill Wilkins: Janet's asleep.
[voice gets deeper]
- Bill Wilkins: ...and I'm talking.”

Bob Adrian - Bill Wilkins

“I checked into the murders. And I checked into the twenty year old boy who killed his parents, and his four brothers and sisters. And when he was at trial, he testified that he heard voices in the house. He heard voices in the house and the voices told him to do it! Now, I was in the house and I heard the voices, too! And I also felt their...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rod Steiger - Father Delaney

“I could read the phone book to a woman and they become hypnotized, wet as morning daisies.”

Tchéky Karyo - Anton

“Whenever you feel alone, you just call my name. I'll follow the sound of your voice.”

Naomi Watts - Rachel

“What was that? I should kill everyone and escape? Sorry, it's the voices. Ahaha, I'm kidding! That's not what they really said.”
Margot Robbie - Harley Quinn

- Liz Sherman: In the dark I heard your voice, what did you say?
- Hellboy: I said, "Hey, you, on the other side - let her go. Because for her I will cross over, and then you'll be sorry!".
Selma Blair - Liz Sherman
Ronald Francis Perlman - Hellboy

“Metatron acts as the voice of God. Any documented occasion when some yahoo claims God has spoken to them, they're speaking to me. Or they're talking to themselves.”
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Herr Flick: I have an excellent gramophone and many old records of Hitler's speeches. They are quite amusing.
- Helga: Hitler's speeches quite amusing?
- Herr Flick: Played at double speed, he sounds like Donald Duck.”
Richard Gibson - Herr Otto Flick
Kim Hartman - Private Helga Geerhart

“- Uncle Millard: It has always been your greatest misfortune, nephew, that you so thoroughly amuse yourself with the sound of your own voice.
- Leopold: In a life as stagnant as mine, that I can amuse myself at all is an evolutionary miracle.”
Paxton Whitehead - Uncle Millard
Hugh Jackman - Leopold

“Let my own lack of a voice be heard.”
J.C. Shakespeare - Burning Man

“I hope that when I go through the pearly gates, the first sound I hear is you asking me for the bill in that lovely Irish brogue.”
Adrien Benn - Diner Waiter

“- President Lindberg: Mrs. Dallas, this is the President. On behalf of the federation, I would like to thank you...
- Korben's Mother: Oh, please. That doesn't even sound like him! The President's an idiot, you don't sound like an idiot.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - President Lindberg

“- Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.
- Mary: Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.”
Michael Murphy - Yale
Diane Keaton - Mary

“- Sandy Patterson: I said no jewelry.
- Diana: Oh, were you serious?
- Sandy Patterson: Yeah.
- Diana: You've got to work on your tone.”
Jason Bateman - Sandy Patterson
Melissa McCarthy - Diana

“There are some voices that are too special to keep hidden.”

Molly Ringwald - Aunt Bailey

“- Lorraine Warren: Do you know when the voice is going to speak?
- Janet Hodgson: Sometimes.
- Lorraine Warren: And when it does, does it feel like it is coming from inside of you?
- Janet Hodgson: No, it is more like it is coming from behind me, like I'm being used.”
Vera Farmiga - Lorraine Warren
Madison Wolfe - Janet Hodgson

“- Kelly: Drew, there was this horrible voice, on the telephone...
- Drew: A heavy breather?
- Kelly: No, worse than that!
- Drew: He turned you on, didn't he? I ought to try that sometime.
- Kelly: I'm serious!
- Drew: So am I!”
Mary Beth Rubens - Kelly
Jeff Wincott - Drew

“- Darlene: Are you aware that you're yelling?
- Eddie: My voice is raised in emphasis. It's a perfectly legitimate use of volume.”
Robin Wright - Darlene
Sean Penn - Eddie

“- Muerte: Do you remember me?
- Jeff Blue: Well, you have a really sexy voice. But hey, I'm a happily married man.
- Muerte: Well, you'll be a dead man soon.
- Jeff Blue: Who is this again?
- Muerte: This is Muerte.”

Stanley Tucci - Muerte
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue