I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WESTI consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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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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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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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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