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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

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
Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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Changing Character Different People Public
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
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
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
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
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.
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Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
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

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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