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 WESTI’m not like a high intellectual.
More Billy West Quotes
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
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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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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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