He's bigger than me, he's in bigger shape than me,
he's younger than me, and he has a shaved head.
So actually, he'll probably use me
to get out of trouble more than the opposite.
There's lots of mystery surrounding whether this will be
Woody's last Toy Story film.
Which character in your career have you
found it hardest to say goodbye to?
Oh dear, that's interesting.
By the time you're finished with any individual character,
you're really quite exhausted
and you're a bit wrung out, like a bit of a rag.
If I could go back and play another character
again and again and again and again, though,
the one that I had a great amount of fun with
was Mr. White, Mr. Amos White,
who is the manager of The Wonders and he worked for Play-Tone Records.
He was a mercurial and mysterious beast.
I'd like to go back and plumb the depths of him a little bit more.
Woody's there for Andy and Bonnie growing up, no matter what.
Did you have a Woody growing up?
I had a Major Matt Mason.
You don't know Major Matt Mason over here.
He was an American astronaut.
He was a small-, he was about that big,
he was a rubber figure but he had wire inside
so he's bendable and poseable,
he had a helmet that you could put on and off
with a visor that could open and close,
and he cost $1.95 from Clarks Drug Store in Red Bluff, California.
So, a scenario.
If you're at Second Hand Antique Store, you walk in as a kid
and you see all the Toy Story gang there,
what would you spend your pocket money on, your $1.95?
Wow, my $1.95, I'm gonna say, would be spent on the Green Army Men.
You know, you get a bucket of Green Army Men,
you've got a lot of guys in different poses.
I view that as value for your money.
Yeah, I was sad to see them go in 3.
- Yeah? Okay. - Yeah.
A big theme in the film is listening to your inner voice,
which Buzz takes a little bit too literally.
Too seriously, yes.
Is there an instance in your career
where you were glad you listened to your inner voice?
Well, you know, that's a highfalutin question
because I think that a career, oddly enough,
is not so much shaped by the things you say yes to,
but by the things you say no to.
And there was a point, I guess, when I was a little bit older
and a little bit more financially secure
in which I realised just because they were offering the opportunity,
the job or something, it didn't mean I should take it.
So, somewhere along the course of a line,
you start saying no to things for the right reasons,
you don't relate to them, they're not a theme
that you're interested in examining, or they wouldn't be any fun.
Now, more than anything else, I say no to things
because I just don't think they're gonna be any fun.
It's like finding your inner voice
in something like Big or, like, your child?
Well, yeah, those are-, (laughter)
You always start on a motion picture
with this idea of what you're gonna land on,
and oftentimes it's not what you think it was.
There's permutations of the other people involved
or changes in the relationship you have
with the director or what have you.
A lot of times, you're working on the third day of a movie
and you're thinking, 'Oh my gosh,
we've gone down this whole other tributary here.'
'I wasn't expecting this,' and then you just keep going.
Your brother Jim is often used to record your voice
for action figures and in video games.
Have you ever used him to get out of trouble?
- My brother Jim? - Yeah.
He looks so different from me, no.
Actually, we resemble each other
probably more than anybody else in the family
but he's bigger than me, he's in bigger shape than me,
he's younger than me, and he has a shaved head.
So actually, he'll probably use me
to get out of trouble more than the opposite.
- Yeah, it's quite different. - Yeah.
You've perfected the voice of Woody.
Can you impersonate any other Toy Story characters?
The only one I can handle is Bo Peep
and it's just the way she says, 'Oh, Woody.'
That's the only thing, I wouldn't dare touch anybody else.