Quotes About Imitation

I had a poster of Iniesta. He seemed like a different player to me: elegant, special... a genius. I watched all the Barcelona games to see how they played and the geniuses, Iniesta and Messi. After, I tried to imitate them, but it was difficult.

Consumers and retailers should always beware of imitators.

I am not a cop. Really. I've just been playing one on television so long that people get a little confused sometimes.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

Who can copy Garbo?

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I can't copy nature.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.