Quotes by Billy West - Page 1

I'm not like a high intellectual.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
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Crafts
I Can
Long
Apply
Craft
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I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
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Tvs
Watches
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I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People
Study
Watches
Way
Alien
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
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Devices
Happens
Reproduction
Vocal
Wells
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Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest
Real
Voice
Attempt
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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
Blanc
New Doing Always
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind
Observation
Observers
Trained
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I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.
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Guy
Liberal Education
Rap
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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
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different
Wayne
Clark
John
Robert
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
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Performances
Robins
Voice
Performance
Robin
Sonic
Understands
Williams
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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
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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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Character
Different
Kenny
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I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.
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Mad
Mean
World
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Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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Study
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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 Of View
Thinking
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I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.
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Clinton
People
Ugly
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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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Loner
Play
School
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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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Character
Fall
Lines
Musicality
Throat
Head
Just Kind
Line
Realize
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It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
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Business
Celestial
Layers
Levels
Onions
Business Your More
Meant
Writers
Major
Onion
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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
Littles
Release
Scared
Surgery
Operation
Sign
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It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. 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
Character
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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.'
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Forever
People
Trying
Chance Myself Me
Gee
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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
Stuff
Cool Me Look
Pretty
Begins
Beyond
Cool Look Me
Plots
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Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.
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Bully
Mad
People
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In a black-and-white world, back in the '50s, were voices from another era. 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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Different
Wayne
World
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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like. 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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Kids
Perception
Scare
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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. So if there's anybody listening out there with any doubts about what I can do for a show: Try me. The thing is, I wasn't about to stop doing a job.
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Doubt
Listening
Trying
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If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken.
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Guy
Kind
World
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The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero
People
Thinking
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I was basically a sound engineer, I produced radio shows and stuff and had to splice tape in the old days. And you knew a sloppy edit when you heard it, because I had enough of them. But that stuff takes the magic out of it, if you need to know everything. Then you become omnivorous. Everything is tender, and as soon as you burn it up, you're on to the next.
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Enough
Magic
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When I was a little kid, I saw a guy with one of those cancer clarinets, and I flipped out. I totally flipped out. I said to my mom, "Mom, what is that thing?" And she happened to know, too, which was the oddest thing. She said, "That's a Bell Telephone artificial larynx, for men that had their voice boxes removed because of cancer." I was like, "Wow." And I couldn't wait to get one. I didn't get one 'til I was all grown up and everything.
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Kids
Mom
Cancer
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Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort. I've met and talked to people, and they're also fusions of showbiz periphery. But the best thing was, if you did your own voice and you were the star of the show - if it came to blows and they had you on the ropes and you had to leave, then they could just get someone to sound exactly like you.
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Believe
Character
Real
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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. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples.
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Cartoon
Long
People
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John Kricfalusi wanted me to quit the job when he got fired in 1992. But the problem there is that I wasn't his partner. I was a hired gun. And then people badmouth me for 10 years, like a rock in my shoe in that camp. It's a very small but active group of posters, as I've come to find out. But the thing is that I finally got to the point where, "Okay, I get you, I get it you don't like that I did what I did." But the thing was, the whole story was cockeyed. They said I put everybody out of work. No, I didn't. Everybody was going to be out of work if I didn't continue the Ren & Stimpy show.
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Gun
People
Quitting
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