Tom Bodett
Tom Bodett
Thomas Edward “Tom” Bodettis an American author, politician, voice actor, and radio host. Since 1986 he has been the spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, ending commercials with the phrase, “I’m Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we’ll leave the light on for you.”...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth23 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
actual age
Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.
funny kids
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.
alaska man
I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.
originated
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.
early positive work
My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.
anyone notice
Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?
appliance artificial demand garment industries sock
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
breath southern spaces
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.
alaska claim gone people running seems summer
There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens.
alaska famous john journal man truth wrote
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.
american-author difference education given lesson school taught teaches test
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
voice guy firsts
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
school alaska mountain
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
school writing als
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.