Quotes About Originality

Everybody steals my lines.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

When somebody says that a comic steals jokes, it's the ultimate betrayal of comedy.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It's very difficult to do, to step out and be different and not follow the norm. If you want what's best for your team, you gotta be different.

The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.

When I stepped into Bollywood, I had my own way because I knew no other way. People see it as unique but it has more to do with my personality.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

I'm a huge Russell Westbrook fan. I pretend I know him, I call him Rusty. But I love his style and someone who steps out out of the box and is bold and that's him.

One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.