Love Quote by Kevin Conroy

Conroy frames Batman less as a cape-and-cowl fantasy and more as a high-end acting gig hidden inside a “kids’ medium” that adults used to dismiss. The first thing he praises isn’t the character or the fandom; it’s craft: animation quality, then music. That ordering is telling. He’s staking the legitimacy of the work on production values and atmosphere, the stuff that makes performance feel consequential even when your face isn’t on screen. For a voice actor, “quality of the animation” is also a practical compliment: good animation listens back. It gives your pauses, your restraint, your barely-there tremor something to land on.

The music callout doubles as a nod to how Batman: The Animated Series and its successors borrowed the language of film noir and blockbuster scoring to create emotional authority. Conroy’s Batman worked because the show’s soundscape treated him like tragedy, not parody. He’s praising the invisible co-stars that hold a performance together when you’re acting in a booth.

Then comes the sly status upgrade: “respected actors who do not usually do voice work.” Conroy is pointing to a cultural hinge moment when prestige talent started treating animation as a serious venue, not a paycheck detour. The subtext is reassurance - to himself, to peers, to audiences - that this isn’t lesser acting. It’s acting with different tools, surrounded by people who could choose anything and still chose this. That’s how you normalize excellence in a space once considered niche.