I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WESTYou have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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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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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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