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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

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
If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
BILLY WEST

Forever People Something Trying
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Believe Character Real
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
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
BILLY WEST

Hardest Real Voice
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
BILLY WEST

Kids Perception Scare
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
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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
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
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 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
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.
BILLY WEST

Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
BILLY WEST

Belive Character Rooted

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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