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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

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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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
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
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
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’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
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
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
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

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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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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