But inspiration? – That’s when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? – and fortunately you haven’t. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.
Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it’s out there, whether it’s a picture or a TV show, it’s there; it’s gonna be out there forever.
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
I’ve always liked Bernie Sanders. I’ve always wanted to do a Bernie Sanders impression, but I didn’t believe people were familiar enough with him to pull it off. And I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of doing impressions that not everybody gets. It’s not fun.
To be totally honest? I don’t know if I’ll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m the impression guy.’ So you imagine the cast at ‘SNL’ is an A-Team, and you’ve got the explosives guy, and I’m the impression guy.
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can’t do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can’t drive.
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.
In 2006 or something, I was recording the voices for this short, ‘The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti.’ I was having fun doing these really crappy Doc Brown and Marty McFly impressions. During the middle of a line, a burp came out naturally. It was just so funny and gross.
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
There’s almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You’re totally consumed in the present, you’ve got new sense impressions, you’ve got all this stuff to digest.
I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.
In 2004 I had the fortune – or the misfortune – of playing John Kerry. It was hard because I think the best impressions exaggerate someone’s most well-known quality. And exaggerating gravitas is very hard to pull off.
I’m very wary with impressions – I don’t think I’m very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven’t cracked the code.
The group disbanded prematurely in 1983, but its records made a sizable mark: Mission of Burma became a band’s band; leaving noticeable impressions on the likes of Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo.
I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
I’m known for impressions and family stories.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I’ll do a voice, and it’s me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody’s head.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30’s and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else’s work too.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Voice actors I used to know who were starting out in comedy were guys who did a lot of voices. They were usually comedy actors who developed their comedy by doing tons of impressions and voices that were usually very funny. And I never did any of that, so that’s, I guess, why I don’t consider myself a voice actor.
I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.
What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it’s just about being silly.
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.
The ‘Station to Station’ film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It’s a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.
I’ve been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.
When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It’s usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
I was 18 when I did ‘The Amanda Show,’ and I was 19 when I did ‘MadTV,’ and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars – speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era – and it was overwhelming. I don’t think I’ve learned more faster in my life than when I worked on ‘MadTV.’
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
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