Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I'm a good mimic.

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 have always been a good mimic.

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

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.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

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

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I can't do impressions.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

I love doing impersonations of people.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I love doing impressions.

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

When I'm around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.