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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

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
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 don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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
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 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
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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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Flawed Perfect Thinking
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
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
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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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real

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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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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