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Billy West

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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Expecting Point Thinking View
Futurama 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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
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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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
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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Flawed Perfect Thinking
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
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
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
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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Cartoon Long People Popular
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare

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