Quotes About Impersonating

#1. In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman, he said. "Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, has no sex. The soul is the pure, changeless image of God.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

#2. Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Michelle Yeoh

#3. If you're trying to disguise yourself to fool an approaching enemy, then try impersonating a nutsack. Just puff out your cheeks and look uninterested.

Robert Hamburger

#4. 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.

Jemima Kirke

#5. Good news for me, although even in Texas I don't think impersonating a maid would be classified as a crime.

Sue Grafton

#6. I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#7. I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating my wife.

Jordan Knight

#8. At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I've been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.

Sophia Amoruso

#9. I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

Jefferson Mays

#10. Men hunt by pretending to be the brothers of the prey they seek, and women hunt by impersonating the mothers of their prey.

Patricia Storace

#11. He desired to become the man he was impersonating.

Paul Fleischman

#12. Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.

Jim Butcher

#13. I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

Vincent Price

#14. I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

David Johansen

#15. Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

John Ortberg

#16. Cassandra Nova impersonating Xavier: Imagine the responsibility of all that destructive potential. The power to crack the firmament and extinguish suns ... Imagine that in the wrong hands.

Grant Morrison

#17. Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives.

"This guy," Charlie said, and looked at his notebook, "Spenser. He was impersonating a police officer."

Belson glanced at him. "We all thought that," Belson said, "when he was a cop.

Robert B. Parker

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.

Arlene Croce

#20. There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

David Wong

#21. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon
You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

Karl Kesel

#23. Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Clive James

#24. Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

Claire Tomalin

#25. When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Jason Mantzoukas

#26. His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

John Cleese

#27. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.

Qwen Salsbury

#28. It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.

Rick Astley

#29. Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

Michael Herr

#30. Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.

William Deresiewicz

#31. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

#32. You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

Callan McAuliffe

#33. Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.

Edmund White

#34. Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

Karen Abbott

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

Grace Gummer

#36. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry ... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

J.K. Rowling

#37. I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Orhan Pamuk

#38. We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.

Vladimir Nabokov

#39. Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

Garrison Keillor

#40. Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

Tim Allen