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Billy West

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
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
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Changing Character Different People Public
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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

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