Quotes About Originality

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look at the 1990s almost like it was a golden era in hip-hop 'cause it was so much diversity in the music and in the artists. It wasn't everybody just trying to paint the same picture and say it with the same flow.

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Every now and then, someone comes along - we used to call it 'New Jack' - tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past.

Everyone tries to be so slick and modern and computerized. I've always done everything myself with little money, so I guess it's become 'my look,' but it's not really intentional.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

I don't know why everyone tries to be like everyone else or just tries to make it to the top when they should be themselves and do their own thing.

Certainly, every movie has to be looked at differently. But I think what happens is, every couple of years, a movie comes along that everybody then tries to copy.

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

I gained my inspiration from former U.S. president Barack Obama, because he tries to do things differently, things which other people do in an ordinary manner.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.

'Don't Even Trip' gave me a chance to really like put some swag on a song. I put the sauce on it.

There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls expressing themselves; I'm not the first to say it; I'm not the first to rap about it. But I'm the one who broke down those doors that everybody has been trying to break down. I did that. I'm the one who went triple platinum first.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.