And I walked down the center of that aisle with these cows looking at me and I said, this is fantastic.
I found one day that if I made a loud noise and all the cows looked up and to me - so I did something silly like, I know that I have your attention. And one of the greatest memories I have is I had a full dairy barn where I would collected milk pails with my brother Larry. RATH: Peter Cullen said he first realized his talent for voices when he was a young boy.ĬULLEN: I lived on a farm and I remember the very first summer I could imitate the cows, the calves, the chickens, the different dogs they had. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, 'THE TRANSFORMERS') But behind optimist prime is 72-year-old voice actor Peter Cullen who first voiced the character 30 years ago on the Transformers cartoon show.
RATH: 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction' stomped into movie theaters this weekend with the kind of spectacle that comes alive when massive, building-sized robots smash each other to bits on the big screen. PETER CULLEN: (As Optimus Prime) Humans are hunting us. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, 'TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION')
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