Tippi Hedren Quotes

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.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

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

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

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

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

I love doing impressions.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

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.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I love doing impersonations of people.