Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Quotes

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes, the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

I believe my hologram might be as good as me.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury.

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you.

You are what you pretend to be.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.