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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.

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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
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
But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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Character Fall Lines
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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
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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Expecting Point Thinking View
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
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
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

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