Billy West
Billy West
William Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, former songwriter and former radio personality who is known for his voice-over work in a number of television series, films, video games and commercials. He has done hundreds of voice-overs in his career such as Ren Höekand StimpsonJ. Cat on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug; Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and a number of others on Futurama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth16 April 1952
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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 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.
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
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.
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.
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.
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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.