Chris Diamantopoulos Quotes

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

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

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

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

I love doing impressions.

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

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

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've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

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

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

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.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

I don't do impressions.

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

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

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I love doing impersonations of people.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I'm not very good at impersonations.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.