Quotes About Mimicry

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Lots of guys have tried to impersonate John Madden and it just doesn't work.

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 do a very good impression of Louis Armstrong.

Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should be well aware about the things happening around him.

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

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

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

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.' The

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Greatness is when people impersonate rather than outperform you!!!!

I love doing impersonations of people.

I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

How terribly we cheat ourselves when we have as much as we want from God. Although many of us have received the gift of salvation, in other ways, we are not unlike some of the Jews Paul encountered. We mimic the words of Felix and sometimes hold up our hand to God and say, "That's enough. That's all I'm comfortable with" (see Acts 24:25).

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. Ephesians 5: 1

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.