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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 watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
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
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
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
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
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
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
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances 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
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 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
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
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
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
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
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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