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 WESTAll 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.
More Billy West Quotes
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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’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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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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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