Quotes About Mimicry

My brother was playing hockey, tennis, badminton... I basically copied everything he did.

Kareem copied my hook shot.

Margo shushing Alice, who had to sigh theatrically every time Cary Grant did a Cary Grant thing.

When I was about nine, I went to school with a toothbrush in my mouth. I saw Method Man do it in a video.

All art is an imitation of nature.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation.

I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.

The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?)

Third, children do pick up the pattern.

People exchange information about how to act in many ways. They observe each other and imitate what they see. When they imitate, they use their bodies to represent the bodies of others. But this imitation is not mindless, automatized mimicry. It is instead the ability to identify regularities or patterns in the behavior of other people, and then to imitate those patterns.

It is easier and more direct to represent a behavioral pattern with behavior than with words. Outright mimicry does that directly, action for action. Imitation, which can produce new behaviors akin to those that motivated the mimicry, takes that one step further.

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.

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

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

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

Life imitates art and back around.

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.