Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WESTI don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
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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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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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 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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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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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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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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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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