Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WESTRobin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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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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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’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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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 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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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