James Adomian Quotes

I love doing impersonations of people.

I love doing impressions.

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

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

Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

It's so rewarding being on radio, especially because it's not about what you look like at all. And I love comedy, so it's very exciting.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

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.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They're so good, and they're so amazingly quick on their feet.