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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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In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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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Character Fall Lines
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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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Dare Ego Something
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
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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Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
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
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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Expecting Point Thinking View
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
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

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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