I’m not angry. Everybody thinks I’m so angry because I have a point of view. They’re expecting me to just be all Smucker’s Jam.
BILLY WESTThe characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
More Billy West Quotes
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
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Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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