Billy West

Billy West

Voice Actor

Billy West is a renowned voice actor known for his roles in 'Futurama' and 'Ren & Stimpy', celebrated for his unique humor and character depth.

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Born
April 16, 1961
Quotes
36
Rank
#1980

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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."

Gun People Quitting
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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."

Doubt Listening Trying
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"I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV."

Watches Tvs
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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."

School Play Loner
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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.""

Ego Dare
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"Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up."

Voice Robins Performances
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"Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt."

Real Voice Hardest
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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."

Character Cartoon Attention
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"Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable."

Different Wayne
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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."

Fall Character Lines
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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."

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

Voice Doing Me Said
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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."

Character Stuff Plot
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