Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
BILLY WESTSomebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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 should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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 don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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