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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.

Billy West

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
BILLY WEST

Kind Observation Observe
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
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
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
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
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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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
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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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WEST

Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
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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Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice

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