Top 97 Imitate You Quotes
#1. Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.
Jane Levy
#2. 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
#3. I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
Peter Ustinov
#4. The problem is, you can't fake dead hands. That invisible something that fills dead or sleeping hands, making them appear strange and inanimate, is impossible to imitate.
Ainslie Hogarth
#5. I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#6. I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
Kevin Spacey
#8. 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.
Bruce Mau
#9. Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'
Gilbert Gottfried
#10. I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
#11. You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
Rumi
#12. You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.
Emo Philips
#13. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
Daniel Boulud
#15. Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
#17. Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.
Mark Millar
#18. I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
Elton John
#19. Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.
Mason Cooley
#21. Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#23. What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which.
Jamie McGuire
#24. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#25. If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
Richard Bach
#27. We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
Eva Burrows
#28. Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
Epictetus
#29. Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.
Anne Bronte
#30. All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Harrison Ford
#31. Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can't imitate people's aura.
Minzy
#32. I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#33. I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
Chris Lilley
#34. It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.
James A. Baldwin
#35. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.
Jewel
#36. Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
J.K. Rowling
#37. If you are going to make disciples, you need to be putting your faith into practice so that the people around you can imitate your faith.
Francis Chan
#38. If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
'What signal?'
'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl
Jim Butcher
#39. You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.
Diane Warren
#40. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Mark Victor Hansen
#42. In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that you should imitate the works of these men; but their artistic spirit, their artistic attitude, I think you should absorb that.
Oscar Wilde
#45. Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.
Roman Coppola
#46. You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Paul Banks
#47. He nodded. "Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I'll give you a signal." "What signal?" "I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl," he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. "Back in a minute.
Jim Butcher
#48. There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.
Robbie Williams
#49. When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
Jeff Lemire
#50. You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?
Stewart Stafford
#51. The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
Stanley Fish
#52. You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.
'Maybe so,' Frink said.
Philip K. Dick
#53. I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through' ... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Natasha Trethewey
#54. We have to report this."
Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves."
"Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.
Genevieve Cogman
#55. We dangle by a flimsy thread,
Our little lives are grains of sand:
The Cosmos is a tiny sphere
Held in the hollow of God's hand.
Give up your anger and your spite,
And imitate the Deer, the Tree;
In sweet Forgiveness find your joy,
For it alone can set you free.
Margaret Atwood
#56. You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
"What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
"What did you have to imitate her for?"
"She laughed at my mustache!"
"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
J.K. Rowling
#57. The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.
Douglas Wilson
#58. I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
Kristen Stewart
#59. If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.
Stephen Colbert
#60. The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.
Edward Hirsch
#62. I've been thinking ... Maybe you're a mockingbird ... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds ... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
Charles M. Schulz
#63. You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This
Robert Blumenfeld
#65. I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.
Heather McDonald
#66. It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
Dave Gahan
#67. I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own thing, tell the story that is in your own heart.
Maryann Brandon
#68. You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.
Stephen Manes
#69. Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith
#70. Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#71. That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
Leigh Newman
#72. Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.
Dave Ramsey
#73. It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
Kurt Fuller
#74. When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.
Pat Boone
#75. Well, get the coffer out," said Tobie roundly. "You find his clean clothes and I'll cut his hair round his cap and wash his ears out. Then, when we get to the Palazzo Medici, you imitate his voice and I'll sit him on my knee and move his arms up and down. Where is the problem?
Dorothy Dunnett
#76. I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Pedro Almodovar
#77. When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
D. B. Sweeney
#79. As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.
Michelle Yeoh
#80. For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith
W. Ian Thomas
#81. You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
Wilhelm Reich
#82. One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Valerie Worth
#83. If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#84. Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his Breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-Besotted Traveler; he
Served human liberty.
Jonathan Swift
#85. So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
Chuck Zito
#86. Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.
Ben Lee
#87. Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
Allan Sherman
#88. Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#89. Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?
L.J.Smith
#91. If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
Cennino Cennini
#92. When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
Anurag Kashyap
#93. Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
L.J.Smith
#94. Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
William Zinsser
#95. The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#96. If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Robert Pinsky
#97. As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
Zoe Saldana
