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I’m not like a high intellectual.

Billy West

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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
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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Character Fall Lines
It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare

I’m not like a high intellectual.

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