Quotes About Impersonation

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

Anonymity prods people to do things they wouldn't do in plain sight. The internet provides that. You can be whomever your picture says you are.

In a room full of journalists someone would already be doing an impersonation of the Robot Man. We'd also make fun of the smarmy host, who is a bit like Tom Bergeron, host of Hollywood Squares, America's Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing with the Stars, only cheesier, which is remarkable because Tom Bergeron is already the gold standard of cheesiness, and yet here is this total amateur, this complete unknown, blowing Bergeron away.

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

The chubby white suburban teenagers impersonating cops were precisely the kind of men to whom we would have preferred not to unload this story.

Are you crying? No, I'm impersonating a fountain.

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

Impersonated is a weird word, especially in this context. (I just noticed that. Im-person-ated. Weird.)

But all tactics of that type tend to leave women still feeling on the outside, impersonators of rhetorical roles that they don't feel they own. Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

be sick in this way is to have the unpleasant feeling that you are impersonating yourself. When you're sick, the act of living is more act than living. Healthy people have the luxury of forgetting that their existence depends on a cascade of precise cellular interactions. Not you.

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!

On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather, his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm, fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.

The only great actress is a woman whom you utterly forget in the impersonation that she chooses you to see. The actresses we are blessed with are always making us think—how well A looks to-night, how intricate B's coiffure is, how becoming that tawny satin is to C, and how resplendent are D's diamonds!

Therefore, you, as human personalities, see yourselves separated from who you really are. It is the clothes you have donned in each incarnation to impersonate who you are.