Melissa White
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113 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Melissa White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I am. I started out like that because I am a perfectionist, recovering perfectionist. I like to call it. I'm doing my best. OK, but that's the problem. I'm doing my best. I need to do less. But anyway, so I definitely started out thinking in that perfectionist mindset. But the thing is, now I do so many auditions.
That if I did it like that, it would take me all day and all night to get them done. And so I've just had to accept, I've had to start trusting myself, trusting my instinct and my gut. It's tough to do, but it's good to do. Because here's the thing. And what I noticed is if you keep saying the same line over and over and over again, it starts to sound fake. Because it's not authentic anymore.
Because it's like, oh, this sounds rehearsed. And I know that because when I started out, I was taking this agent workshop. I was trying to get representation. And I had beat this script to death, man. I rehearsed way too much to the point where I get in front of the agent. He's like, this sounds rehearsed. And I'm like... So I was like, I'm never doing that ever again. I'm trusting myself.
I'm just doing it. So, yeah, I think it's something you learn over time. You just accept it. And I also know that sometimes casting, not me, not me, but some casting directors will turn it off within the first two seconds. So it's like, why are you spending all this time if they're, one, not going to listen to it or turn it off in two seconds? Like, just have fun with it. That's the main thing.
Have fun and send it off and forget about it.
That's funny.
I mean, I know Josh doesn't like Persona, but I want to be in Persona so bad. I just want to be one of the main cast members in a Persona game. Honestly, even if I was the dude selling bread. Yeah, dude, whatever. Literally anybody in Persona. Just in that series in general. Because that's my biggest inspiration is Persona 5. That's what really I try to pull from. Those are my...
I don't know, like dream performances, I guess, because I think they're so good. But yeah, I would say any role in the Persona series, but main character would be great.
I would say what I like to do is if somebody is in the top three choices, then I go on their social media. So it's like unless you're already in my top three, I'm not really looking at like stuff you've posted or anything that unless I know you as a person. Right. And I've seen you talk about it, but.
So I guess sort of, if you're already a top choice, but for the most part, it's like, I think casting has an idea of what they're looking for. And so, um, yeah, I mean, I, I wish I would, if I knew everybody, I wish I knew what everybody send me a list of all of your like dream roles.
I don't have a deep voice, but every time I listen to women with deep voices, I'm like, oh my God, why don't I sound like that? Because I just can't. My squeaky voice, I'm like, all right, cool, I'll be the little kid again.
Yeah. So I think imposter syndrome happens to all of us. I'll just say that. Oh, absolutely. Even people at the top still deal with it. Right. Everybody's got a little bit going on. But I'll just say like what I always tell myself when I book something, they picked me for a reason. And I don't care like how big the project is. I'm there because I'm qualified to be there.
I'm more than capable of getting this job done. So I just I tell myself that and and sometimes I'll like freak out before my session, but then I'll get in the session. I'll be totally fine because most voice directors are incredible. They're amazing. They make you feel so comfortable. They're reassuring. And it's just like it's more of a collaborative effort. Like you're there to make art.
You're not there for perfection. You're not there to be criticized because it's just a team effort. And I think a lot of people do think of direction as like critique, whereas it's more, no, we're just working together to get the best product. Because it's never like, wow, you suck. It's, oh, try it this way.
So, I mean, sometimes it's, wow, you suck if you have a bad director, but that's very rarely the case.
Yeah, exactly. But no, that doesn't happen often. But I would just say I always tell myself that I earned it. You know, I have trained for a long time. I've practiced for a long time to get to this point. And I belong here as much as anybody else does. So, yeah, you just have to keep hyping yourself up. Keep saying your affirmations. I do that every morning. Yeah.
Because it's hard, you know, it's just like, man, you go through these periods. One thing about voice acting, too, not to ramble too much, but one thing is you sometimes you'll have these like you're booking a lot over and over and over again for a month. You book so many things you can't keep up. You're so busy. And then for the next like two months, you don't book a single thing.
And that's when it starts to hit like, oh, my gosh, is my career over? Yeah. You have to reassure yourself. That would be tough, honestly. Yeah, it's the dry spells. It happens to everybody, but it's not, it doesn't say anything about you. It's just like, what's in season? Like, who's booking right now, you know? And you just have to keep going. Keep going is the most important thing. Yeah.
So it's normal.
Yeah.
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