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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Billy West

In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
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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Dare Ego Something
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
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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Changing Character Different People Public
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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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Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
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
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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