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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.

Billy West

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.
BILLY WEST

Expecting Point Thinking View
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.
BILLY WEST

Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.
BILLY WEST

Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
BILLY WEST

Kids Perception Scare
Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WEST

Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
BILLY WEST

Hero One Own Point World
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
BILLY WEST

Doing Me Said Voice
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
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
BILLY WEST

Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WEST

Flawed Perfect Thinking
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Hardest Real Voice
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.
BILLY WEST

Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WEST

Televisoion Unit Watches
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
BILLY WEST

People Watches Way

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