N.B.: Do you have any pet projects you'd like to see get made?
Patrick Warburton: Not right now, I don't have anything, at least in the realm of animation. There are some things I'm working on, script-wise, that I would like to get produced.
N.B.: You have a few different things coming out pretty soon in 2007. Bee Movie is highly anticipated since it comes from Jerry Seinfeld.
Patrick Warburton: Yeah, Bee Movie is going to be a lot of fun.
N.B.: A friend of mine wanted me to ask you if you still had that eight ball jacket from Seinfeld.
Patrick Warburton: No, I never got it. I could have bought it from the wardrobe people there for a few hundred dollars. I guess I should have. Who knew that there'd be a thing called ebay and you could make some money.
N.B.: It could show up in the Smithsonian someday.
Patrick Warburton: I don't know about that. It's not exactly Fonzi's jacket.
N.B.: I'm sure you get recognized a lot for Seinfeld. Does it bother you? Do you like it?
Patrick Warburton: You have to embrace that because it will always be there. No matter what I do, people will still, y'know, I'm still going to get, "Puddy!"
N.B.: Do you feel you get typecast into ego maniac characters? Do you want to break out and try something different?
Patrick Warburton: To a degree, that does happen. But that's your responsibility as an actor to make sure that's not all you do. So I try my best to do other stuff. But every now and then you end up doing something that's very close to something else you did. That's just going to happen. You gotta make sure that every now and then you do something crazy or stupid or whatever, mix it up a bit.
N.B.: Have you done theater in L.A.? Do you enjoy that?
Patrick Warburton: I haven't done any theater in a decade. Theater doesn't pay. I've got four kids to put through college. I need to work. Theater is a huge time committment and you don't make a dime. I'm not one of those rich actors that can... "I think this year, I'll just do a play."
N.B.: What cartoons did you watch when you growing up?
Patrick Warburton: Other than Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, everything else was a Saturday morning cartoon. We only had four TV stations. I remember they'd have one special night, and I forget what time of year it was. It was probably one of the only exciting things about the end of summer. On a certain Friday night they'd have a preview of all the new Saturday morning cartoons. Like the preview for The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Scooby Doo. Do you remember that?
N.B.: Yeah, I do.
Patrick Warburton: That Saturday morning, you could see all the new cartoons, and those would be the Saturday morning cartoons for the next year. Kids now have more 24 hour cartoon stations than we had TV stations.
N.B.: Thanks for talking to me, I really appreciate it.
Patrick Warburton: My pleasure.
