Quotes by Jodi Benson - Page 1

'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.
Jodi Benson / Actress
Changed
Mermaid
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I love working for Disney! They are my family.
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Disney
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I love working with talented young performers.
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Performers
Talented
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I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.
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Blessed
Perform
Concert
Studio
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I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.
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Womb
Sang
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I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.
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Barbie
Voice
Workout
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I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.
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Different
Done
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Variety
Different Areas
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I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video.
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Barbie
Video
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I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.
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Bible
Scripture
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I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.
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Christ
Apart
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I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
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Entertainment
Feelings
Thinking
Variety
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Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
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Flexibility
Great Life
Life Experiences
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I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
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Parenting
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I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.
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My Soul
Track
Worship
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Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
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Pixar
Board
Disney
Jump
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I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.'
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Barbie
Remember When
Invite
Toy
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I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.
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Lord
Follower
Platform
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I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
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Box
Calls
Dream Big
Encourages
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My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.
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Connecting
Reaching
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I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
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Collecting
Mermaid
Saved
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I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.
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Box
Dream Big
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When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
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Concerts
Your Body
Yourself Your Body
Everything Else
Gown
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Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.
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Connecting
Great Joy
Overwhelmed
Signing
Backstage
Event
Illnesses
Meeting
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I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.
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New York
Animated
Careers
Radar
Thinking
Voice
God Mind Me
Voices
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For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there weren't really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.
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Careers
Husband
People
Faith Me People
Ray
Statement
Stood
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I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.
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Sister
Disney
Dropped
Voiceover
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I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.
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Broadway
Illinois
Princess
Relate
Disney
Smaller
Wanting
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All I've been a part of has been thanks to the Disney company: the job, experience, travel, opportunities have come thanks to Disney. Working for Disney was not part of my original plan, but it was part of God's, and it shows that God is still moving.
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Disney
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The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.
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Animation
Boundaries
Choreography
No Boundaries
Blocking
Clothing
Total
Total Freedom
Unbridled
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I was very flattered when Disney Junior reached out and invited me to come voice Ariel for this special primetime edition of 'Sofia the First.' As the parent myself, I really appreciate the positive messages that this animated series is trying to put out there.
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Animated
Flattered
Invited
Messages
Parent
Positive Myself Me
Disney
Edition
Junior
Reached
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I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
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Broadway
Invited
Mermaid
Middle
Musical
Abruptly
Audition
Cast
Closed
Pre-Production
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What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney.
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Classic
Floating
Disney
Maintain
Voices
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What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.
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Crosses
Entertainment
Generations
Integrity
Viewers
Love Time Family
Concept
Love Family Time
Good Time
Partner
Qualities
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I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married for almost 30 years, and we homeschool our kids. We have a different working-out-of the-box family, but we do make it work, obviously with God's grace, and we are very grateful for that.
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Journey
Committed
Grace
Grateful
God Faith Family
God Family Faith
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Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.
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Mom And Dad
Babies
Solution
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We had put our son into a little preschool in Los Angeles, and it was just not going well, so we brought him back home. We had every intention of putting him back into a traditional school setting, but we just really couldn't find the right match for him. And then we moved to Georgia and again couldn't find the right match.
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Georgia
Intention
Los Angeles
Preschool
Setting
Traditional
Angeles
Los
Match
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