Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
BILLY WESTI 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.
More Billy West Quotes
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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