There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.
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It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.
I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.
Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a physical actor.
You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.