I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WESTI’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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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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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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