Jim Cummings

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have…

— Jim Cummings

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies…

— Jim Cummings

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature…

— Jim Cummings

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

— Jim Cummings

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when…

— Jim Cummings

One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going…

— Jim Cummings

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me.…

— Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

— Jim Cummings

I loved Ray from 'The Princess and the Frog.' He was my guy. There was no Ray before me, so there's a…

— Jim Cummings

I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm…

— Jim Cummings

A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm…

— Jim Cummings

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films…

— Jim Cummings

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's…

— Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said,…

— Jim Cummings

The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them.…

— Jim Cummings

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

— Jim Cummings

I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time.…

— Jim Cummings

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue…

— Jim Cummings

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

— Jim Cummings

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm…

— Jim Cummings

I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and…

— Jim Cummings

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

— Jim Cummings

Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then…

— Jim Cummings

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking,…

— Jim Cummings

It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I…

— Jim Cummings