# Actors whose voices you don't like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906 "2005-03-10T21:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/41 "2005-03-11T18:33:44Z")
John “I Cut Off My Own Nuts And Now I’m Breathing Moistly In You Ear” Malkovich. That Steve guy from _Sex and the City_. Jennifer Tilly, but who cares what she _sounds_ like. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/42 "2005-03-11T18:44:43Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > For some reason, I can’t think of Donald Sutherland’s voice. It sounds like someone talking with a mouth full of mashed potatoes, to me. There’s a sort of gap-toothed lisp combined with a sort of Tom Brokaw mangling of guttural consonants. His line in _Max Dugan Returns_, when his character, Brian Costello, is talking to Nora McPhee (Marsha Mason), comes out something like this: “If you go to jaigle, I’ll misth ya gause I’m grazy aboutcha. But I won’t be abgle to gelp ya.” (If you go to jail, I’ll miss you 'cause I’m crazy about you. But I won’t be able to help you.) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/43 "2005-03-11T18:47:09Z")
I’m gonna get flamed for these two, but… **Jimmy Stewart** ’s trademark stutter and “aw, shucks” manner worked fine for much of his career. But, towards the end, it got more and more pronounced to the point where he sounded like someone doing a bad imitation of himself. **Katherine Hepburn** ’s trademark quaver did much the same. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/44 "2005-03-11T18:49:19Z")
Edward Norton–nasal and monotonous. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/45 "2005-03-11T19:36:49Z")
I can’t think of a single actor (male female) who’s voice I don’t like. I can think of plenty who’s _personality_ I don’t like. But I like, or don’t mind, all the voices. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/46 "2005-03-11T19:39:48Z")
Damn! I started reading this thread before I went to class, and **Beware of Doug** posted “John Malkovich” before I could. In every film I’ve seen him in, I get the destinct impression that he’s reading lines from the script. His characters have never convinced me and come across as totally flat, especially when he doesn’t even try to change his voice for period pieces…I mean, as King Charles in _The Messenger_, WTF was that?! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/47 "2005-03-11T19:43:39Z")
I’d also like to nominate **Ray Romano** , who isn’t really an actor, but likes to pretend that he is. **Nick Nolte** , who used to be mildly entertaining, now just annoys me with that boozed-out, three-pack-a-day grunting. **Joan Rivers** , who is only an actress in the sense that she has appeared on my TV screen and made noises. ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/48 "2005-03-11T19:55:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Nick Nolte** , who used to be mildly entertaining, now just annoys me with that boozed-out, three-pack-a-day grunting. I’ll second that (seeing as that’s who I came here to mention) and raise you a **Renee Zellweger** , whose voice often screeches to the point where it sounds like she’s a teenage boy just hitting puberty. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/49 "2005-03-11T19:58:31Z")
Norm McDonald. I think he’s really funny, but the voice makes me want to slap him. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906/50 "2005-03-11T20:17:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Nick Nolte** , who used to be mildly entertaining, now just annoys me with that boozed-out, three-pack-a-day grunting. He’s the only person I know who can yell and mumble at the same time. I hate listening to him! When I saw _The Thin Red Line_ he did that yelling/mumbling thing and I wished for his character’s death so I wouldn’t have to continue listening to him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-voices-you-dont-like/293906.md?page=2)