In some ways, this one was harder, because I felt like I…

You'll never make a success of yourself when you're doing an impersonation of somebody else.

— Katherine Ryan

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to…

— Neil Gaiman

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's…

— Audra McDonald

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

— Tony Goldwyn

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life…

— Masha Gessen

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

— Philip Roth

That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.

— Fred Armisen

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

— Ice T

“...sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of…

— Michael Cunningham

Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up in front…

— Chris Lilley

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an…

— Erik Griffin

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

— Leon Surmelian

“So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.”

— Nick Bantock

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

— Sushant Singh Rajput