33+ Billy West Quotes On Politics, West And Fashion

Billy West is an American voice actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known for providing the voices of Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg on the animated series Futurama. He has also done numerous other voice-over roles in films, television series, and video games. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Billy West on life, love, politics.

Top 10 Billy West Quotes

1. You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
2. 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.
3. I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
4. Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
5. You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
6. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
7. 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.
8. I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."
9. 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.
10. I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

Billy West Short Quotes

• Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
• Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
• I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
• I'm not like a high intellectual.
• As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
• I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

Billy West Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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.' — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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

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. — Billy West

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." — Billy West

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. — Billy West

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. — Billy West

Life Lessons by Billy West

1. Billy West's career has taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter what your background or circumstances may be.
2. He has also shown us that it is possible to reinvent yourself and find success in new and unexpected ways.
3. Lastly, his work has shown us that it is important to stay true to yourself and never give up on your dreams.