Billy West Quotes

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

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.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

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.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Comedy is second nature for me.

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I always loved working in comedy.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.