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.’
BILLY WESTRobert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
More Billy West Quotes
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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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 should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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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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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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