Quotes About Imitation

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

The house belonged to the hashish school of Spanish architecture. Probably early nineteen-twenties and imitation Mizener, which made it the imitation of an imitation which wasn't worth imitating. It was a ponderous monstrosity with thick walls, meager windows, insane turrets. Somebody with a hidalgo complex had tried to jail a dream of happiness. The prisoner had probably died, or lost its mind.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Worked examples allow your learners to borrow knowledge. By studying worked examples, learners can emulate how others perform a task.

God is the greatest of artists! How good of Him to give us this world, and the change to imitate Him by bettering it. Wryly: If only we did not mar it, and ourselves, so often!

Ningún cómico ha conseguido hasta ahora la naturalidad con que Rajoy imita a Rajoy.

Cependant les années s'avançaient. Il fallait commencer à imiter les autres, leur ressembler.

It is instructive to compare the Meditations with another famous book, the Imitation of Christ. There is the same ideal of self-control in both. It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

the Imitation of Christ.

En un mot, nos mains tâchent de faire dans la nature, pour ainsi dire, une autre nature.

I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.

And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.

Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

We're mimics, we're parrots - we're writers.