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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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

    Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.
  • 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."

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.'

    "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

    Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.
  • You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

    "Billy West: The Many (Cartoon) Voices In His Head". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 15, 2010.
  • Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

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    Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

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    Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.
  • I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I'm not like a high intellectual.

    Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

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    The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.
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