Impersonation Quotes

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

— Jane Ace

“Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.”

— S. E. Entsua-Mensah

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

— Fred Armisen

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Ice T

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely…

— Toby Jones

In some ways, this one was harder, because I felt like I was doing an impersonation of myself. Which, aside from being…

— Michael Keaton

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

— Philip Roth

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

— Katherine Ryan

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

— Nick Bantock

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

— Julian Jarrold

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a…

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I…

— Angelica Ross

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me…

— Dorothy Parker

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Erik Griffin

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing...…

— Alex Borstein

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

— Audra McDonald

“The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a…

— Andrew Lane

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my…

— George MacDonald Fraser

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

— Chris Lilley

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

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

— Masha Gessen

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the…

— Philip Roth

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always…

— Joaquin Phoenix

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’m so sorry, I forget to introduce m’self. Cleo, shat for Cleopaitra, cause m’ daddy always said I look like an Egyptian…

— Elle Klass

It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights…

— Rick Astley

Sometimes you just need to make a funny face, use a goofy expression, or do an impersonation with a accent.

— J Gullang

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

— Michael Cunningham

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

— Leon Surmelian

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

— Robert Breault

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't…

— Andrea Riseborough