Impersonator Quotes

I haven`t yet had any plastic surgery, but I won`t knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It`s hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that`s huge. You can see every single line. But I think it`s an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don`t like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It`s just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same.

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.

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.

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

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.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don`t think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn`t even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don`t know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.