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.
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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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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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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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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