Graham Chapman Quotes

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

It's a really fun thing to do, dressing up.

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.

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

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

Who doesn't want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It's like dress-up.

Halloween is all about being bold, daring, and creative! You get to be someone else for the night thanks to makeup and a costume. I pretty much do that on the daily, so I am not that big on Halloween, but I do appreciate a good costume and some incredible makeup.

I make an all right Bowie. Actually, I look more like Cilla Black with that wig.

He had a Halloween party and I dressed up as The King. One of the more enjoyable nights I've had. Nobody recognized me. They recognized me, but they recognized me as Elvis. I might have to bring that back to Indianapolis.

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.