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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Mimicking people was something I did already.