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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.

Billy West

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
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
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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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
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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Flawed Perfect Thinking
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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
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
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
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
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
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
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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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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