Quotes About Imitation

All people imitate their creations. Today's fashions imitate our principal creations, which are electronic. Women imitate light bulbs or TV sets; their clothes glow, their hair is luminous. They radiate. They can be turned on and off.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.

I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated.

If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.

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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced.

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.

I've seen a lot of people stealing from what I do. Some people show love and say thank you and tell me how I was an inspired for them.

Obviously, things evolve; teams see you play a little bit and start try to do things, and the one thing that'll happen is if one team has success in something, you can bet the next three teams are doing some similar things, too.

All art is theft.

Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked

I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine.