Voice Mimicry Quotes

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

I have been 'absorbing' people - their voices, their mannerisms - all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?

I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

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

I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

On this show, your voice will be heard in the form of my voice.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'