I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WESTEverybody. 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.”
More Billy West Quotes
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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 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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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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Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery ’cause of the release you sign that says there’s always a very small percent chance that you’ll die during the operation.
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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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