I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.