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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.

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
Tom 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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Changing Character Different People Public
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 don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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
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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
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
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
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
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
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

I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.

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