Justin Timberlake Quotes

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

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

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

I've always thought of myself as a singer, even when I was a child.

I would say I was, I guess, a toddler when I actually found my passion because, when I was little, I used to mimic all these movies and sing all this music that you wouldn't think a toddler would know. I would think my passion just started there, and it just grew with me.

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

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 like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

I'm a good mimic.

I don't do impressions.

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

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

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

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.

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

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

I love doing impressions.