I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
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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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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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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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.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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