Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
BILLY WESTFuturama 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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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 consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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