Men:
Jeremy Irons
Patrick Stewart
Antonio Banderas
Sean Connery
Yul Brenner (if only)
Peter O’Toole
Adrian Paul
Women:
Earth Kitt
Kathleen Turner
Ornella Muti
Tiramisu, have you heard him sing Hit Me Baby One More Time? He even makes that sound sexy.
OH, and I meant Eartha Kitt in my list above.
Liev Schreiber and/or Vin Diesel
All my choices are for the wrong reasons:
Andy Rooney - just because he’s so whiney and repetative, and that hopefully reading the phone book might keep him occupied for the rest of his life.
Rosie Perez - To see how long she could go without cussing while reading.
Susan Tyrell or Dorothy Lucey - Because I’m secretly a masocist.
Robert Blake - That man rambles and is so clearly crazy it would have to be entertaining.
Joe Lieberman - I have bouts of insomia and need something reliably dull to put me to sleep.
Bernie Mac - Now THAT could be legitimately entertaining.
Yeah. I have a clip of him singing that saved on my computer and another of him singing Beyond The Sea drool.
I am such a geeky fangirl that I went out and bought the ROTK soundtrack, copied the track with him singing to my computer and edited out the long instrumental intro so I can have just him singing.
Er … and now back to the thread.
I have some type of psychological problem – I am always answering these things in the negative:
Pauly Shore
Carrot Top
Fran Drescher
Sean Connery
Ella Fitzgerald
done
Keanu Reeves. Reading the entire phonebook would prevent him from making any more movies for at least the next ten years.
I would have to say Hank Azaria.
If only to hear him finish and say “Worst. Phonebook. Ever.”
- Peter Wiggen
Men -
Isaac Hayes
Sean Connery
Martin Sheen
Women:
Allison Janney
Majel Barret
OK my women are odd choices, I suppose, but maybe it’s just the pleasant distinctness of their voices…
Actors with interesting voices:
Greg Wise
Stockard Channing
Sting (hey, he acted once!)
Tommy Lee Jones
Male:
Morgan Freeman (as he narrated Shawshank)
Derek Jacobi (thinking of his role as The Chorus from Henry V)
Female:
Brooke Langton
Michelle Pfeiffer
Nicolette Sheridan
Nastassia Kinski
In memoriam:
Paul Winfield – his narration for City Confidential gave the show incredible personality.
Hard to believe no-one has said Tina Turner yet. There’s a speaking voice that will keep you awake. Somebody already took my other choice, Eartha Kitt.
I’m not sure what Boyo was saying.
I am voting for Fran Dresher
…what?
Nancy Cartwright
alternating as Bart, Nelson Muntz, Todd Flanders, Ralph Wiggum
I’ll have to agree with the popular choices of:
James Earl Jones
Sean Connery
2nd the nomination of Clancy Brown
1st nomination for Andie MacDowell
Jim Dale, from the readings of all the Harry Potter audios. He is fabulous.
Lots of good ones here, many of which I’d second. But my first choice would be Tom Baker.
For women, I think I’d choose Dixie Carter.
Heh, I listened to it a week after I saw Lion King. It was very difficult to get past the image of Uncle Scar shagging a teenie…
William Shatner
Christopher Walken
Snoop Dogg
Samuel L. Jackson
Quentin Tarantino
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Sarah Nixey (from the band Black Box Recorder)
Beth Gibbons (from the band Portishead)
Alan Rickman
Steve Buscemi
Bruce Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland
Bono
The guy who narrates all those movie trailers (“In a world where nothing is as it seems…”)
and… Li’l Jon! HHHWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTT?!