Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WESTYou have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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