Quotes About Imitation

One must choose one's enemies carefully, as one ends up resembling them.

La continuidad de la vida social sería posible sin esa compacta masa de hombres puramente imitativos, capaces de conservar los hábitos rutinarios que la sociedad les transfunde mediante la educación?

La función capital del hombre mediocre es la paciencia imitativa; la del hombre superior es la imaginación creadora.

El hombre mediocre es una sombra proyectada por la sociedad; es por esencia imitativo y está perfectamente adaptado para vivir en rebaño, reflejando las rutinas, prejuicios y dogmatismos reconocidamente útiles para la domesticidad.

Su característica es imitar a cuantos le rodean: pensar con cabeza ajena y ser incapaz de formarse ideales propios.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.

This is an exact replica of my chest.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.