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Quotes About Impersonation

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
~ Laurence Olivier
For Robert Lee Hodge, it was also a way of life. As the Marlon Brando of battlefield bloating, he was often hired for Civil War movies.
~ Tony Horwitz
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
There's someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn't say anything damaging, I don't care. Let him get on with it.
~ Sean Lock
One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
~ Tasha Smith
My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.
~ Tags: insomnia
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
~ James Gandolfini
I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.
~ Neeraj Kabi
I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.
~ Peter Hitchens
By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not the whole George they demand and are prepared to recognize. Those who call him on the phone at this hour of the morning would be bewildered, maybe even scared, if they could realize what this three-quarters-human thing is what they are talking to. But, of course, they never could—its voice's mimicry of their George is nearly perfect.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Hola? ¿Quién está ahí? Que se vuelva a poner Zuzana.¿Zuzana? Hay una tía ñoña al teléfono haciéndose pasar por ti…
~ Laini Taylor
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
~ Shirley Eaton
I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. 'Winnie' sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately - she'd probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English.
~ James Veitch
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~ Susan Brownmiller
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A theory. A marketing campaign. A political strategy. A religious doctrine.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.
~ Clive Barker
I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.
~ Frank Abagnale
A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves.
~ Thomas Fuller
Not only will I be there," Liz said, "but I'll be impersonating a pleasant woman with great manners.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Shortly before Valentine's Day in 1948, the two miscreants—posing as brother and sister-in-law—traveled to Royersford, Pennsylvania, to meet Ray's latest mark, Esther M. Henne, a forty-one-year-old teacher at the Pennhurst Asylum for "feeble-minded" children.
~ Harold Schechter
I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
~ Les Claypool
I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'
~ Ioan Gruffudd
Arpy (suplantación de identidad por falsificación de tabla ARP),
~ Timothy Ferriss