Geraldine McEwan 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.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

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

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

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.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

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.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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.

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.

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

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

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 think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

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.