Mark Fisher Quotes

I'm not really an impersonator.

Being is like pretending.

Style equals pretense.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Everybody is in drag.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don't start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.

Fashion and music are connected, since both are expressions.