Quotes About Emulation

Children need models more than they need critics.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

How could she criticize her mother when, in truth, she wanted to be just like her, brave

When people see me as Gavaskar on screen, I want them to feel that they are looking at the person that they have known and when I play on screen, it should remind them of how he played.

I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said to myself, 'I have to run just like him. I have to shoot just like him.'

My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.

It's pretty cool to play against your idol.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

I try to reach out to my idols.

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

she would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched.

When we begin to live for others, we will begin to have the same effect on others as Jesus did.