The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
BILLY WESTI’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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