"I would go home and imitate the imitation of me in the mirror — 'Hi, my name is Dick Sssscanlan and I'm soooo excited!' — and I would think, That can't be the way I'm behaving, because I can imitate that and it doesn't feel like me".
"And I do like him, and I like him as an actor, but I don't think that his imitation of me gets me at all.
And I do like him and I like him as an actor, but I don't think his imitation of me gets me at all.
He didn't know I was in the audience, but he did an imitation of me that was really good.
Marshall admitted that she'd never been a big fan of O'Donnell's rendition: "On 'Geraldo' I used to have to do [Rosie's] imitation of me so she wouldn't look foolish," she told the audience.
But the price is to endure his killer imitation of me meeting Lauren Bacall, complete with droning "Uhhhhh", mad eyes and nervous rocking... Killer Diamonds by Rebecca Chance is out now, published by Pan Macmillan, £7.99.
Playing Britten, Alex Jennings was well placed to perfect an imitation of me, which I suspect he had long been doing on the quiet but which he was able to put to legitimate use in Hymn and Cocktail Sticks (2013), two short autobiographical pieces which began life in the Platform slot before transferring to the Duchess.
In the song "Cant Stop " by the Red Hot Chili Peppers the line "choose not a life of imitation" makes me think about what if we choose a life of imitation.
"I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good," he said.
WATCH: "I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good".
