Quotes of: Imitator Keyword

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

Jeff Garlin

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Salvatore Quasimodo

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.

Life

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Willis Polk

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Anne Sweeney

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Robert Pinsky

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.

Love Letters

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

Cheryl James

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Quintilian

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Steve Lacy

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

Steve Vai

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

Kimiko Glenn

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

Lena Horne

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Mary McCarthy

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Robert Rodriguez

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

Rain

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

Gilbert Gottfried