Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WESTSpace Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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.’
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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’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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