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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.’

Billy West

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 WEST

Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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.
BILLY WEST

Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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.
BILLY WEST

Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
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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Character Fall Lines
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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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Dare Ego Something
In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
BILLY WEST

Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
BILLY WEST

Different People Sounded
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.
BILLY WEST

Expecting Point Thinking View

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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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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