As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
BILLY WESTIn a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
More Billy West Quotes
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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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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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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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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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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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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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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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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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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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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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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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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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