You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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