Quotes About Imitation

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

I'm just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.

I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and tried to copy his behaviour. I wonder if this is true.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

I can fake anything.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

How many fake Drakes are there? How many fake Migos are there?

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

'Choli Ke Peeche' and 'Ek Doh Teen' were my favourite numbers as a kid. I was a huge fan of Madhuri Dixit and would spend hours looking into the mirror and aping her expressions, believing that the mirror was the camera!

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.