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 WESTTom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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