Impersonator Quotes & Sayings

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually. — Helen Mirren

Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories. — James Berardinelli

In reply to the often asked question why he performs dressed as a woman, Kazuo has repeatedly stated: "My intention in dressing as a woman onstage has never been to become a female impersonator, or to transform myself into a woman. Rather, I want to trace my life back to its most distant origins. More so than anything else, I long to return to where I've come from. — Kazuo Ohno

It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator. — Demetri Martin

Sitting at the old patio table she'd cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She'd come here with too many expectations. — Sarah Addison Allen

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge. — Robert Loggia

Life was messy, conflict inevitable. It didn't mean you had to fall apart. — J. Courtney Sullivan

She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined. — Madhu Vajpayee

As truth is nonexistent, it can never be anything but illusion - but illusion, the by-product of revealing artifice, can reach the summits nearer the unobtainable peak of Perfect Truth. For example, female impersonators. The impersonator is in fact a man (truth), until he re-creates himself as a woman (illusion) and of the two, the illusion is the truer. — Truman Capote

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them ... — Benjamin Rush

There's nothing you could say that would shock me. — Laura Prepon

Once I climb in, will they believe it's me even if they know who I am, or think I'm just a John Waters impersonator? Which I am in a way every day ... only older. — John Waters

There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator ... — Terry Pratchett

He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup. — John Updike

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. — Simon Cowell

I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week. — Sophie Jordan

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator. — Michael Sheen

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. — Angela Carter

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. — Mindy Kaling

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator. — Lisa Marie Presley

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something. — Taylor Kitsch

When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years. — Brandi Carlile

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. — Diane Kruger

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator — Dennis Miller

Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you. — Chogyam Trungpa

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator. — James McGreevey

I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch I was just sitting there in a like a bronze track suit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue. — Will Forte

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator. — Andrea Riseborough

I'm not really an impersonator. — Gilda Radner

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion. — S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way — Han Kang

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud. — Lisa Marie Presley

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Have we ridden forth to victory, only to stand at last amazed by an old liar with honey on his forked tongue? So would the trapped wolf speak to the hounds, if he could. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Really? Because I recall you asking the Elvis impersonator at your Vegas wedding if he could add a line to Jenny's vows that said, 'I promise to always give blow jobs with a smile on my face and love in my heart, — Tara Sivec

My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. I don't want people not taking me serious. Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on. — Christopher Titus

Who does not end up a female impersonator? — Anne Carson

the wise man regards the reason for all his actions, but not the results. — Seneca.

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle. — Leon G. Cooperman

So his brothers were scary and creepy. Manda's younger brother worked as a female impersonator and she didn't have a problem with it. Sara could learn to deal. — Kristen Painter

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator. — Michael Jackson