Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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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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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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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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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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 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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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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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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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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’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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