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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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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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Character Fall Lines
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
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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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Dare Ego Something
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.
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High Intellectual Like People
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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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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