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.”
BILLY WESTSpace Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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