Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I really like acting in English.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

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

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I don't do impressions.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I love doing impressions.