Alex Winston Quotes

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

I'm a good mimic.

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

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.