As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WESTSpace Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
More Billy West Quotes
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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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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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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