Jemima Kirke Quotes

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

I love doing impressions.

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

It is my job to step into different characters.

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 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.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

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.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

I'm not very good at impersonations.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

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

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.