Quotes About Originality

I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.

My stock answer when people ask 'Are you Britain's Barack Obama?' is 'I'm quite happy being Streatham's Chuka Umunna,' and I really mean that.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

To see where I've stolen all my ideas from, look no further than the comics at your local comic shop!

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.

We considered all sorts of names - everything from Tarantula Bomb to Superego to Section 8. Some of them were already taken, and some of them were kind of campy sounding. So we just decided to stick with Stone Sour. After all, what's in a name?

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.

My philosophy was simple: audiences shouldn't say that I just came, stood, and copied another comedy star. They should say 'Senthil acted in this.

Stop making the same games about shooting something and driving; try something else. There is a market for that.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I don't like to go to regular, big stores - I don't like to wear anything anybody else does.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

I've tried to shop in stores that have brands that aren't known or pieces of clothing that aren't as easy to find.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.