I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
BILLY WESTDon’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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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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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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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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