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