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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.

Billy West

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Expecting Point Thinking View
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
But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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Character Fall Lines
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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
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
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
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
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real

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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