As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WESTSomebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
More Billy West Quotes
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery ’cause of the release you sign that says there’s always a very small percent chance that you’ll die during the operation.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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 should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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