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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.

Billy West

Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WEST

Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
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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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
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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Dare Ego Something
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WEST

Flawed Perfect Thinking
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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
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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Character Fall Lines
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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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe

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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