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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Billy West

You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare

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