Influential Voices

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

Heads Up: I don't mean people who have swayed the minds of those around them.

But what I do mean is people who have voices so pleasing or infectious to the ear that you find yourself thinking or speaking like the person in question. I have done this with a multitude of characters and people and I'm just wondering if other people do it. If so list them here.

Yahtzee (In fact I was thinking like him when I wrote this.)
Ezio
The Sniper
The entire "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" cast
John Wayne (I'm not letting the European's monopolize this list)
The Scout
This Philadelphian Man I once met.
Joe Pesci

 

[Berethond]

Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, and James Earl Jones.

 

[TeeBs]

Whats with everyones infatuation with voices recently?

I can't think of anyone's voice I really like other then people I only know as singers.

I guess if thats counts.

Jeff Buckley
Thom Yorke
Jonsi

 

[Gxas]

Jim Dale, Rip Torn, and Jeff Bridges come to mind.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

FDR, I occasionaly find myself quoting the "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speach.

 

[hittite]

The obvious choice, Frank Sinatra.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Henchmen 21 from the Venture Brothers
Seriously, my internal voice sounds just like him.

 

[luckycharms8282]

Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, and James Earl Jones.

Dammit! You took the three guys I had been thinking of.

 

[Kae]

Well I sometimes think like that voice in The Grinch stole christmas (the cartoon) and like William Shatner playing Captain Kirk which is weird cause I don't really care for Star Trek, also sometimes think with The voice from the guy that played Grant Mazzy in Pontypool(By the way if you have not seen this movie you should check it out I thought it was pretty damn good, and it's a suspense/horror film BTW) his name was Stephen McHattie. I think that is about it.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Morgan Freeman. No one else even comes close.

EDIT: Though I do occasionally hear Shatner in my head, talking like Denny Crane.

Creepy, yet awesome.

 

[Nouw]

Morgan Freeman and Yahtzee. I end up reading everything in their voices!

 

[Spacelord]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned Sir David Attenborough yet.

Also Dwight from The Office US has a really soothing, dare I say even sexy voice. Just pay attention to it on occasion. After that you can never unhear what I just told you. You're welcome.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

Gordan Freeman

 

[zehydra]

Kurt Cobain when he's talking.

 

[mikev7.0]

Bruce Boxlietner. In fact his voice is so distinctive it once drove me nuts trying to figure out where I'd heard it before. My friend had loaned me all of Babylon 5 right after my surgery so I was taking vicodin and listening to a voice that sounded oh so familiar........ so I asked him what else Bruce had done. He listed nothing familiar to me but this holiday when I put in TRON Evolution it was all made clear.

Now, I can give myself a pass for not realizing it right away since I haven't seen TRON in ages and refer to the television as what I play music and games on, but Mr. "I own/watch every single episode of anything even romotely scifi?" No excuse.

Eddie Izzard as well. He just has a voice that you could sit and listen to all day.... Then again that's no surprise as I grew up partially on Python and BBC Radio (If you ever get a chance to listen to Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe there is some amazing voice work in that.)

I'm familiar with most people's picks but who are Denny Crane, Yahtzee, and Jim Dale please?

 

[mikev7.0]

Bruce Boxlietner. In fact his voice is so distinctive it once drove me nuts trying to figure out where I'd heard it before. My friend had loaned me all of Babylon 5 right after my surgery so I was taking vicodin and listening to a voice that sounded oh so familiar........ so I asked him what else Bruce had done. He listed nothing familiar to me but this holiday when I put in TRON Evolution it was all made clear.

Now, I can give myself a pass for not realizing it right away since I haven't seen TRON in ages and refer to the television as what I play music and games on, but Mr. "I own/watch every single episode of anything even romotely scifi?" No excuse.

Eddie Izzard as well. He just has a voice that you could sit and listen to all day.... Then again that's no surprise as I grew up partially on Python and BBC Radio (If you ever get a chance to listen to Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe there is some amazing voice work in that.)

I'm familiar with most people's picks but who are Denny Crane, Yahtzee, and Jim Dale please?

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm familiar with most people's picks but who are Denny Crane, Yahtzee, and Jim Dale please?

Denny Crane is played by William shatner (Who was the original Captain Kirk). The delivery of the line "Denny Crane" is pretty memorable, but his delivery has always been, shall we say, "unique."

Yahtzee is the guy who does Zero Punctuation on this site.

No clue about Jim Dale.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Seananners...Lisa Foiles?!
Ummmm...Oh, there's a load.

...But somehow, I find Morgan Freeman's voice to be quite annoying o.o.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Patrick Stewart <<<
Billy Connolly (I have his voice as the directional voice of my Tom-Tom. It's amazingly pleasant).
Liam Neeson
...gah, I'm sure there's more. I just can't think of them all.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, David Attenborough

These three men make the UK a well voiced and intelligent place