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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.

Billy West

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.
BILLY WEST

Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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
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
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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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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.
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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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
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
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
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
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People

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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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