Phil Hartman Quotes

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

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

I love doing impressions.

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I love doing impersonations of people.

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

I have always been a good mimic.

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

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

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

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.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I see myself as an entertainer.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.