The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
BILLY WESTAs long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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