I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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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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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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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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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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