“Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.” PeopleThinkingWantRealGuyTermViewsHarderImpressionHardestThings To DoHardest ThingDo The BestPresentingCaricaturesHardest Thing To Do Author:Stephen Root
“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.” IfsSelfSometimesHandsGuyThreeActorsCasesPiecesDirectorsConsciousStartingImpressionSuitsAuditionsSelf ConsciousPomposity Author:Charles Kimbrough
“I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.” SometimesRememberGuyBlackFieldsImpressionMississippiDeltaMississippi Delta Author:Mose Allison
“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.” WorldWantedGuySpeakWhiteComedyMomMy MomImpressionComedianJamWhite Guys Author:Jordan Peele