Tom Bodett Quotes

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

I don't do impressions.

I love doing impressions.

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

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

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.

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 love doing impersonations of people.

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

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.'

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

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.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

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've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I'm not very good at impersonations.

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

A really good impressionist, even if they don't look at all like the person they're impersonating, it's a weird thing where they start to look like that person. It's kind of odd.