You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
BILLY WESTEverybody. 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.”
More Billy West Quotes
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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 watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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.
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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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