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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.

Billy West

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.
BILLY WEST

Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WEST

Televisoion Unit Watches
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
BILLY WEST

People Watches Way
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.
BILLY WEST

Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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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Dare Ego Something
Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
BILLY WEST

Changing Character Different People Public
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WEST

Craft Happy Long
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WEST

Flawed Perfect Thinking
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
BILLY WEST

Belive Character Rooted
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.”
BILLY WEST

Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
BILLY WEST

Kind Observation Observe
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.
BILLY WEST

Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking

I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.

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