If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
BILLY WESTTom 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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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 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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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 only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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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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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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