Billy West Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

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.

I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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