Quotes About Mimicry

The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like 'Dreamgirls' and 'Ray,' the type of movies you wouldn't think a little kid would know. But my parents thought I was great.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

A 'biomass' man repeats what he sees

For it is a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe. A youngster identified with a mustang goes galloping down the street with a new vitality and personality. A daughter imitates her mother; a son, his father. —Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY

Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

Mirror neurons are essential for mimicry and also for empathy, giving us the ability not only to copy the complex tasks performed by others but also to experience the emotions that person must be feeling. Mirror neurons were thus probably essential for our evolution as human beings, since cooperation is essential for holding the tribe together.

Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Simply put, some people are doing better than others because they do things differently and they do the right things right.

Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. Wow! What an idea. Success

had some shapeshifting abilities that let them mimic and deceive their prey. They were vampiric by nature, but they fed on inish instead of blood.

Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea—as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact," said Granny. "But I don't hold with encouraging it.

Full disclosure, Jon Jones is someone that I emulate as a fighter. I think he's one of the most complete fighters in the game. I think he's one of the most dangerous men in this world and that's, honestly, who I'm trying to fight like.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

You are imitating Jesus Christ and taking on the nature of a servant, which is your calling as a Christian.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

I adored my brother when I was younger, so I wanted to do everything he did.

I was the youngest of three, so simply copied my older brothers. It made life very easy. We wore the same yellow jumpers that our grandmother knitted, went to the same school, laughed at the same jokes, and supported the same football team.

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

To copy faults is want of sense.