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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

You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
BILLY WEST

Hero One Own Point World
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
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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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
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.
BILLY WEST

Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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Cartoon Long People Popular
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
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
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
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.
BILLY WEST

Country People Performances Voice

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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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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