Editing Marge Simpson (section)

===Voice===
[[File:Simpsons voice actors (Julie Kavner crop).jpg|right|upright|thumb|[[Julie Kavner]]]]
Marge's voice is performed by [[Julie Kavner]], who also does the voices of Marge's mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma. Kavner had been part of the regular cast of ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]''. Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member [[Dan Castellaneta]] to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.<ref name="The Age">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/27/1046064146568.html |title=D'oh, you're the voices |access-date=October 30, 2008 |date=February 27, 2003 |author=Lee, Luaine |work=[[The Age]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102224412/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/27/1046064146568.html |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FN">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/doh-the-voice-of-homer-is-deceivingly-deadpan |title=D'oh!: The Voice of Homer Is Deceivingly Deadpan |access-date=October 30, 2008 |date=August 18, 2008 |author=Elber, Lynn |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703090128/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C129665%2C00.html |archive-date=July 3, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Part of Kavner's contract says that she will never have to promote ''The Simpsons'' on video and she rarely performs Marge's voice in public because she believes it "destroys the illusion. People feel these are real people."<ref name="Sheridan">{{cite news |title=Meet the Simpsons |date=May 6, 2004 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Express]] |author=Sheridan, Peter}}</ref><ref name="Hamilton"/> Kavner takes recording sessions seriously and feels that voice acting is "a little more limiting than live acting. And I have nothing to do with my character's movement."<ref>{{cite news |title=Treading 'Water' Julie Kavner takes break from Marge Simpson to star in Woody Allen's TV Movie |date=September 18, 1994 |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |author=Weiskind, Ron}}</ref>

Marge's raspy voice is only slightly different from Kavner's, who has a "honeyed gravel voice"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDF1F38F935A15752C0A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |title=Darling! Listen to Me |access-date=November 23, 2008 |date=January 26, 1992 |author=De Vries, Hilary |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209000856/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDF1F38F935A15752C0A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> which she says is due to "a bump on [her] vocal cords."<ref>{{cite news |title=The actress with the one-of-a-kind voice stars in Nora Ephron's comedy 'This is my Life.' |date=March 13, 1992 |work=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |author=Haun, Harry}}</ref> While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because "they're really funny and sad at the same time."<ref name="Hamilton">{{cite news |title=Ay caramba!: Only TV could call this work |date=December 31, 1996 |work=[[The Hamilton Spectator]] |author=Duffy, Mike}}</ref> In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', some scenes, such as Marge's video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving Kavner exhausted.<ref name=moviesonline>{{cite news|url=http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12524.html |title=The Simpsons Movie Interviews |author=Roberts, Sheila |access-date=October 30, 2008 |publisher=Movies Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104132905/http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12524.html |archive-date=January 4, 2009 }}</ref> [[Kristen Bell]] provided Marge's singing voice in "[[The Star of the Backstage]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hughes |first=William|date=July 24, 2021|title=Kristen Bell to serve as Marge's new singing voice on The Simpsons premiere |url=https://www.avclub.com/kristen-bell-to-serve-as-marges-new-singing-voice-on-th-1847356532 |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref>

Until 1998, Kavner was paid $30,000 per episode. During a pay dispute in 1998, Fox threatened to replace the six main voice actors with new actors, going as far as preparing to cast new voices.<ref name=Glaister/> However, the dispute was soon resolved and she received $125,000 per episode until 2004 when the voice actors demanded that they be paid $360,000 an episode.<ref name=Glaister>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/02/1080544690429.html |title=Simpsons actors demand bigger share |access-date=October 30, 2008 |date=April 3, 2004 |author=Glaister, Dan |work=The Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202171844/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/02/1080544690429.html |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> The issue was resolved a month later,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/simpsons-cast-goes-back-to-work/ |title='Simpsons' Cast Goes Back To Work |access-date=October 30, 2008 |date=May 1, 2004 |publisher=[[CBS News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913212830/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/01/entertainment/main615066.shtml |archive-date=September 13, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Kavner earned $250,000 per episode.<ref name="Sheridan"/> After salary re-negotiations in 2008, the voice actors receive approximately $400,000 per episode.<ref>{{cite news |title=Simpsons cast sign new pay deal |work=BBC News |date=June 3, 2008 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7434296.stm |access-date=October 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914050545/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7434296.stm |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> Three years later, with Fox threatening to cancel the series unless production costs were cut, Kavner and the other cast members accepted a 30 percent pay cut, down to just over $300,000 per episode.<ref>{{cite news |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title='The Simpsons' Renewed for Two More Seasons |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/simpsons-renewed-two-more-seasons-245748 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=October 15, 2011 |date=October 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010170625/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/simpsons-renewed-two-more-seasons-245748 |archive-date=October 10, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>