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.
BILLY WESTI 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.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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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’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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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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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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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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.’
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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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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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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