My Parents Were Incredibly Strict, Almost Military

I Love Life, And I Embrace Every Minute Of It.

The Thing I Gravitated To Was Being The Class Clown. It Was Very Competitive.

Sid [the Character From 'ice Age'] Is A Prehistoric Sloth. Sloths Move Really Slowly And They Store Food In The Cheek Pouches. That's Where I Got The Voice That You Hear. He Had To Sound As Though He Was Storing Food.

I Had To Get The Voice Back, The Precise Pitch Of Sid's Voice And I'd Forgotten That I'd Pitched Him Higher Than My Regular Voice, So That Was A Little Difficult To Begin With. It Was Especially Hard Because We Started Recording In The Morning So I Had To Warm Up A Lot And My Usual Voice Is A Little More Gravelly.

But When You Are Doing An Animated Voice, It Has To Have More Energy Than Usual Or It Falls Flat And Doesn't Work. For Myself, I Found That I Had To Put Myself In The Same Physical Or Emotional State As Sid, In Order To Make That Voice Sound Alive And Authentic. So If There Was A Scene In Which He Was Running, I Would Be Running Beforehand To Sound Out Of Breath. That's Important Because The Audience Can Tell Intuitively If It Does Not Sound Real.