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I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

Billy West

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Billy West
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 16
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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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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
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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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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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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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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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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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I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
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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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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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As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
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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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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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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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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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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
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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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