Quotes About Imitation

If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate them.

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

There's no one better to imitate than Carly Fiorina when it comes to a successful woman.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?

You shouldn't want to imitate people if it doesn't fit with your own style.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'

As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.