The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
BILLY WESTJohn 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.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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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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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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