Quotes About Imitation

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.

I've watched what happens when a game like 'DragonVale' gets to number one on iOS. Suddenly there's ten other versions of it that hit the store. As a gamer, that bothers me. I don't like those companies.

My son looks up to me and watches every single thing I do.

I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, and I'd just recite Andrew Dice Clay jokes. They seemed to think that was pretty funny. Then it evolved into 'Wayne's World.'

I can do a good John Wayne.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.