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.
BILLY WESTYou have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
More Billy West Quotes
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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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