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.
BILLY WESTI’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
More Billy West Quotes
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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 don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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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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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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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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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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