You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
BILLY WESTTom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
More Billy West Quotes
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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 should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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