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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.

Billy West

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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
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
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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
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
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
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
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
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Forever People Something Trying
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way

The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.

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