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Bulma Voice Actor Tiffany Vollmer's 5-Question Interview | DBZ, Dragon Ball Z
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Mar 31, 2025
Tiffany Vollmer, best known as the original English voice of Bulma in Dragon Ball Z, does the 5-question interview! She shares behind-the-scenes stories, discusses her journey as a voice actor, and answers fan questions about working on one of the most legendary anime series of all time.
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hi my name is Tiffany bumer you might
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know me as the voice of Bulma from
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Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z and Dragon
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Ball GT and this is my five Question
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Interview how do you expand your range
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as a voice actor do you study accents or
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voice
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qualities I do all of that not only do I
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do it but I also wrote an acting for
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media program where I taught it for four
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years I use a lot of different tools I
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use um Loke method uh it's a kind of a
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movement type
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but you can also use that when we're
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talking about using your voice
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especially with different qualities
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whether it be volume or Pace or tone um
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I warm up still even when I'm got to
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talk a lot um my daughter is also acting
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now and so it's really fun to do vocal
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warm-ups with a 9-year-old what's your
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routine of taking care of your voice
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especially during demanding
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projects when we first started doing
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Dragon Ball we weren't taking really
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great care of our voices we were scream
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scaming and screaming for Pages at a
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time now that we learned I used to have
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a three and a half octave range and I've
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lost some of my upper register
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unfortunately but you know saving the
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screams for last making sure you're
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really warmed up and prepared for it um
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and not not recording for too long like
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I can't do more than a 4-Hour session
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without doing starting to feel a little
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strain so just being aware of your of
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your instrument and your tool and
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knowing
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um what your limits are I uh I have a
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product that I like to use I learned
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about it from a guy named Michael
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Kavanagh who was singing moving out on
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Broadway it's called singer Saving Grace
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it is uh it's just a lubricant that you
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can spray very generously in your mouth
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think it's like $12 a case and they're
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like little squirt bottles you just use
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it to lubricate I also drink a lot
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of
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emergency it's me through the day keeps
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my immune system
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going um what when signing autographs
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what quotes are you most ask what quotes
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are you ask for the most yep it's me I'm
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as smart as I am beautiful or
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um I'm too young and pretty to die
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what's the most surprising Direction a
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director has ever given you during a
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recording session
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I had to Ribbit for an entire episode so
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walking in and being told hey you're
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going to be a frog today let me hear
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your
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Ribbit that was pretty fun
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um everything else is pretty
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straightforward I mean I I did her for
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over a decade so my sessions weren't
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very involved I pretty much knew what I
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was doing walked in one hit wonder kind
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of deal we all try to say that it's not
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always true but you use hook lines to
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get into at the start of your session or
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other methods to make sure you maintain
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consistency
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um I I have this weird thing where I
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just kind of channel the character like
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I don't know how to explain it um if I
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can get a vision of the character in my
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mind and hear them in my own brain then
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it just kind of comes out of my mouth so
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I don't really use a hook line I know
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what that is I know some people have
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done that but
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and a lot of times I'm only going in to
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read for one character that's not a
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reoccurring role so I make it up on the
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Fly and I don't have to go back to it um
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you can find me on Instagram and on
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Facebook the OG Bulma the o period G
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period
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B yeah that's where you can find it
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