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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.

Billy West

The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
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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Changing Character Different People Public
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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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Forever People Something Trying
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
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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Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way

I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.

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