As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WESTThe only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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 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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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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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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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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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