I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
BILLY WESTIf 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.’
More Billy West Quotes
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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 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 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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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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 don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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