Spoofing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?

Salvador Dali

#3. That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

Cyrus Broacha

#4. Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Mel Brooks

#6. I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

Peter Capaldi

#7. The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

David Deida

#8. All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Nathanael Howe

#10. I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

Chloe Sevigny

#11. I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

Richard Carleton

#12. When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.

Samuel R. Delany

#13. To get squares you have to give up squares.

Bobby Fischer

#14. When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#15. Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy.
(on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

Hristo Stoichkov

#16. Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

E. M. Bounds

#17. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

Nicole Krauss