I was immersed completely in the 'Harry Potter' world. I recognized that this was something exceptionally clever and very good and very well written, with a prospect of six more books to follow. So of course, this really whetted my appetite. |
I was the first person in America to have the script and I think only the third person to know what the story was, |
I was the only one in America with the book (in manuscript form). Released into the wrong hands, it could have ended up on the Internet and losing a lot of people a lot of money. |
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. |
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy. |
I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. |
It helps if you have an ear for voices and accents, |
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you. |
My wife knew, but don't mention that because they'll probably put a spell on me and I'll disappear in a cloud of smoke. But you can't keep it from her -- I'm at home yelling out these voices. My wife must be an idiot if she didn't recognize this is book four. But she didn't read it. |
Sometimes, you're able to create a very distinct voice ... from just the pace of their speech. Did you know. That Michael Caine. Can only speak. In three words. At one time. |
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. |
There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top. |
They came over to us and said, 'Are you . . . are you HIM?' |
They were nearly beaten up every day by friends wanting to know the story of book four, ... On bended knees, fielding off all the blows, they had to say, 'Granddad won't tell us! He won't tell us! He won't breathe a word of it!' |
They're seriously thinking of getting in touch of the Guinness Book of Records to recommend an entry in it under 'most voices recorded from one person for an audio book,' |