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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

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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
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’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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
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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Expecting Point Thinking View
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
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
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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Forever People Something Trying
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice

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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