Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WESTYou have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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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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It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
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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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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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