27 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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