Quotes from Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

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.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

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.

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.'

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

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.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

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.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

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.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.