Quotes About Imitation

Many people want to be a part of this industry only because of its glamour. What they have to understand is that it takes hard work to make it big. Imitation and bootlicking won't get you through.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.'

With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2.

I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and end up imitating them rather than finding their own identity.

I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.

I can't do impressions.

I love doing impressions.

Other shows have been aping 'Indian Idol.'

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Zegas began where Ford left off: with insinuations about Leslie's sexual proclivities. "Did she know the word coming?" he asked. "Did she know what jerked him off meant?" "Not unless someone explained them to her. I wouldn't expect her to use those words with me," Carol said. "But if she heard words in a sentence, she'd parrot it back. She'd get attention like a young child using the word doo-doo.

On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

Steven Wright can do Steven Wright very well. Not everyone can do Steven Wright's jokes with the same results.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.