Quotes About Mimicry

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

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

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

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!

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

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

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.

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

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

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

till she found herself saying the words and singing the responses like a parrot.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Maddie trok een wenkbrauw op, een uitdrukking die ze van hem had overgenomen en die hij weer van Halt had.

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry! O falling fire and piercing cry and panic, and a weak mailed fist clenched ignorant against the sky!

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type—a persistent character—is formed.

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.