Quotes About Impersonation

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

In fact, he was dressed for the character of 'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one of his most remarkable impersonations

In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman, he said. Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, has no sex. The soul is the pure, changeless image of God.

You never play age, you play character.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

He desired to become the man he was impersonating.

That's what it was. He wasn't any more Wynant than I am. You know how it is: we told the Philly police he'd sent a wire from there and broadcasted his description, and for the next week anybody that's skinny and maybe got whiskers is Wynant to half of the State of Pennsylvania.

Asking you to play someone you're not is like asking King Kong to play the Moonlight Sonata.

For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.

Cauliflower pretending to be rice, oat milk pretending to be cow's milk. Jackfruit pretending to be meat when it's nothing like it. Nothing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ substantial.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).

Was she impersonating someone, acting from a script prepared beforehand? Or was I dealing with a person who could not be dealt with because she was mad?

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

Everybody is in drag.

I would like to do the Elvis Presley.