Impersonators Quotes:

It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

- Demetri Martin

source: Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

topic: Interesting, Would Be, Impersonators, Funny Music

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Devil, World, Impersonators

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Funny, Life, Clever, Impersonators

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud

- Lisa Marie Presley

topic: Fans, Three, Generations, Older Generation, Walking Out

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

- Lisa Marie Presley

topic: Redneck, Voice, People, Impersonators

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

- Simon Cowell

source: "Simon's kind of town" by Craig Berman, www.today.com. January 18, 2006.

topic: Dresses, Female, Would Be, Great Female, Impersonators

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

- Angela Carter

topic: Lovely, Mind, Tragedy, Impersonators

One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

- Rob Huebel

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Jail, Bronx, Yankee Stadium

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.

- Robert Loggia

source: Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

topic: Play, Careers, Different, Impersonators

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Love All the People".

topic: Vegas, Guy, Strikes, Cool Guy, Impersonators

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

- Diane Kruger

topic: People, Very Good, Impersonators

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

- Mort Sahl

topic: Acting, Actresses, Female, Impersonators

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

- Hilary Mantel

source: Source: newrepublic.com

topic: Males, Might, Firsts, Impersonators

I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.

- Jenny Lewis

source: "Jenny Lewis made the move from child actor into music for the right reasons". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. August 30, 2016.

topic: Memories, Las Vegas, Avid, Shoppers, Impersonators

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

- George Carlin

source: Source: reprints.longform.org

topic: Growing Up, Yearbook, Names, Fifth Grade, Announcers

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

- James McGreevey

topic: Eye, Gay, Editors, Public Eye, Impersonators

I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.

- Gary Gulman

topic: Hate, Nickels, Quarters, Impersonators

My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. 'I don't want people not taking me serious.' Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Christopher Titus: Love Is Evol". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2009.

topic: Dad, Divorce, Thinking, Impersonators

I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.

- Mort Sahl

source: Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

topic: Mistake, Careers, Female, Impersonators

When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.

- Brandi Carlile

topic: Girl, Running, Dad, Other Girl, Always Running

I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch. I was just sitting there in a like a bronze tracksuit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.

- Will Forte

source: "Will Forte & Jason Sudeikis Celebrate SNL Presents: Sports All- Stars". Interview with Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. January 27, 2010.

topic: Sports, Mean, Thinking, Impersonators

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

- Helen Mirren

topic: Impersonators

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

- Michael Sheen

topic: Blair, Impersonators

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

- Susan Brownmiller

source: Susan Brownmiller (1985). “Femininity”, Fawcett

topic: Feminist, Degrees, Female, Impersonators

"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

- Clive James

topic: Voice, America, Giving, Eyelids, Condescension And

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

- Dennis Miller

topic: Politics, Als, Phony, Impersonators

I'm not really an impersonator.

- Gilda Radner

topic: Impersonators

Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.

- James Berardinelli

source: "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

topic: Summer, Real, Dust, Blitz, Box Office

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Thinking, People, Impersonators

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

- Tom Bodett

topic: Voice, Guy, Firsts, Impersonators