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Peter Cullen [1941-0] Canadian

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Actor, Voice actor

Peter Claver Cullen is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known as the original voice of Optimus Prime in the original 1980s Transformers animated series, and most other incarnations of the character, as well, and Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise.

Science, Space, Technology

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I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.	Science, Space, Technology	101
I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me.		102
Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.		103
The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?		104
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.		105
I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.		106
I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.		107
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.		108
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.		109

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