I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WESTFuturama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
More Billy West Quotes
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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 characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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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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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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