Quotes About Imitation

Certainly, every movie has to be looked at differently. But I think what happens is, every couple of years, a movie comes along that everybody then tries to copy.

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

My favorite movie is 'Imitation of Life.' It's just a true love story, and it really touched me.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

To copy faults is want of sense.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

Mimesis is darkness, create your own light, the brighter inner light, the brighter it shines

In Sector 23, life imitates art.

He had no way of discerning the difference between true regality and a parody.

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Gene Kelly has meant so much to me through the years. I used to dance in my living room in socks and a tee-shirt, no idea what I was doing, but wanting to dance like Gene.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.

True love does not hurt. It's our imitation of it that does.

And fancy means phony.

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