I’m not like a high intellectual.
BILLY WESTLife 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.
More Billy West Quotes
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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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’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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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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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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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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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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