Quote

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

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

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

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

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.