Quotes About Parodies

#1. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#2. I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And bad in a worse way, too. They're just parodies of themselves sometimes.

Kyle Parker

#3. There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#4. the Zombeatles have made a name for themselves over the past several years by performing garage-rock parodies of classic Beatles tunes with new zombiefied lyrics.

Matt Mogk

#5. Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley

#6. I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Ivan Reitman

#7. When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people ... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci

#8. The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

John Ridley

#10. I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Al Yankovic

#11. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.

Mons Kallentoft

#12. By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Al Yankovic

#13. In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Al Yankovic

#14. Kitsch parodies catharsis ... It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts ...

Theodor Adorno

#15. 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

#16. I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

#17. I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

Al Yankovic

#18. At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

N. T. Wright

#19. 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

#20. I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.

Demetri Martin

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

Bill Paxton

#22. 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

#23. We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Audre Lorde

#24. The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Mason Cooley

#25. As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

Noel Wells

#26. Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

James Berardinelli

#27. What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

Max Tundra

#28. My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

Al Yankovic

#29. I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

Al Yankovic

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

Tom Wolfe

#31. Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.

Rick Moranis

#32. See Amazon's bio on don loedding and a review of his first book of short stories"The Search For the Bearded Clam" and read inside "Global Warming:The Iceman Cometh".

Donald R. Loedding

#33. I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing. It's hard when someone is just exactly like a parody.

Jo Walton