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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.

Billy West

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WEST

Flawed Perfect Thinking
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.
BILLY WEST

Character Fall Lines
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
BILLY WEST

Belive Character Rooted
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
BILLY WEST

Hero One Own Point World
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real
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
Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
BILLY WEST

Changing Character Different People Public
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WEST

Televisoion Unit Watches
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
BILLY WEST

Kids Perception Scare
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.
BILLY WEST

Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
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.
BILLY WEST

Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
I’m not like a high intellectual.
BILLY WEST

High Intellectual Like People
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.
BILLY WEST

Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
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
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WEST

Craft Happy Long

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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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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