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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

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
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.
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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
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
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
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
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 have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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 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
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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Flawed Perfect Thinking

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