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.
BILLY WESTI’m not like a high intellectual.
More Billy West Quotes
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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