Billy West Quotes

The audiences have a certain perspective of every heroine and one should not go against it.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

It's definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt, since I signed with the WWE, I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I would love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun.

Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way.

I do not care that the people is for or against me. The important thing is that I am appreciated by a response of boos or cheers. This is the important thing. it is important that people see me as a superstar talent that they want to see. I enjoy being heel.

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

I know the polling data shows people have a negative view but if you listen to everything out there, you think, my God. We're in such deep trouble. We created more jobs than every other industrial country in the world combined.

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really liked the idea.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

I've been in a few movies that really have the tendency to polarize people, and I kind of like that. I kind of like anything that pushes people's buttons. People will always take things as they want, and project stuff on it - it's just kind of what people do. Whether it's violence or teen pregnancy, whatever.

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.