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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

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.”
BILLY WEST

Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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 watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
BILLY WEST

Country People Performances Voice
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
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
BILLY WEST

Different People Sounded
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
BILLY WEST

Doing Me Said Voice
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
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.
BILLY WEST

Character Fall Lines
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

Band Coming Listen Loner Play School
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
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.
BILLY WEST

Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
BILLY WEST

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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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