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.
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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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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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Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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 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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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