The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
BILLY WESTRobin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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