Arca Quotes

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

As much as we don't like to admit it sometimes, we are the influencers.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

I call myself a chameleon.

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.

I have been 'absorbing' people - their voices, their mannerisms - all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.