Quotes of: Parody Keyword

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Criss Jami

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Busy Philipps

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Al Yankovic

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

Ana Gasteyer

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Marlon Wayans

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

Adam McKay

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

Cat Deeley

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

Al Yankovic

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Adam McKay

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

Tom Wolfe

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

C.S. Lewis

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Bill Paxton

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Al Yankovic

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

Dan Aykroyd

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Andy Milonakis

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

John Ridley

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Larry Hagman

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Al Yankovic

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

David Foster Wallace

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Nancy Pearcey