Imitation quotes

“- Tommy: I coulda been somebody, instead of just an ice cream truck driver, which is what I am, let's face it.
- Debbie: Who was that, Jerry Lewis?
- Tommy: Jerry Lewis? You thought that was Jerry Lewis?”

Steve Buscemi - Tommy
Chloë Sevigny - Debbie

“You can't make experimental work by copying past work. ”
Trey Parker

“I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.”
Laura Kightlinger

“Andy Warhol is art. We must ask ourselves, does Andy imitate life or does life imitate Andy?”
Paul Williams - Warhol PR

“- Debbie Stephens: Jim, this is all a big put on, isn't it? Like Fantasy Island, right?
- Jim Ferguson: Come on, Debbie, it's not that bad. It's only World War I.”

Fiona Hutchison - Debbie Stephens
Alex Hyde-White - Jim Ferguson

“If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.”
Sam Raimi

“- Texas Man: Am I going too fast for ya?
- Pistachio Disguisey: Am I going to fast for ya?
- Texas Wife: Are you mocking my husband?
- Pistachio Disguisey: Are you mocking my husband?
- Texas Wife: ‘Cuz you better not be.
- Pistachio Disguisey: ‘Cuz you better not be.”
Robert Machray - Texas Man
Dana Carvey - Pistachio Disguisey
Rachel Lederman - Texas Wife

“The only way this works is if you believe that you're these people so much that you dream like them.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“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

“Why don't you stop imitating a gorilla and start imitating a man?”

Eugene Pallette - Alexander Bullock

“[as a hippie]
Dude, I'm your old man. I suppose you're wondering why your middle name is Rainbow.
[as a thug]
Yo son, what's up, homes?
[as a New Age adept]
I am your father. Hug me, and let us join our spirits.”

Robin Williams - Dale Putley

- Omar Mukhtar: We do not kill prisoners!
- Arab Warrior: They do it to us!
- Omar Mukhtar: "They" are not our teachers!

Anthony Quinn - Omar Mukhtar

“- Gillian Bromley: You can't be serious!
- Jack Rhodes: Why, I've never been more serious in my life.
- Gillian Bromley: Why are you imitating Tony Curtis?
- Jack Rhodes: I'm not imitating Tony Curtis, I'm imitating Cary Grant.
- Gillian Bromley: You're doing Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant...
- Jack Rhodes: Oh...
- Gillian Bromley: Cary Grant...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lesley-Anne Down - Gillian Bromley
Burt Reynolds - Jack Rhodes

“- Heather Evans: Do you come out here a lot?
- Isaac Barr: No, just in moments of existential anxiety and when I want to impress a date.”
Kim Basinger - Heather Evans
Richard Tiffany Gere - Isaac Barr

“- Veronica: If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?
- Heather McNamara: Probably.”
Winona Ryder - Veronica
Lisanne Falk - Heather McNamara

“- Mima Kirigoe: The truth is that today more than ever, I wanted to have a good time with you.
- Yamashiro: This thing is told by the big stars, but not by you!”

Junko Iwao - Mima Kirigoe
Kirk Thornton - Yamashiro

“If our boy imitates being wanted and desired enough times, he believes he will become one who is wanted and desired and accepted. It'll all come true.”

William Petersen - Will Graham

“- Agent Kathryn Smith: There's always a girl like Victoria. Anyway, I wanted to be in her group so badly that I stopped doing all the things I wanted to do to do things she wanted to do.
- Abby Parker: Let me guess: But you were totally miserable because you weren't being true to yourself.
- Agent Kathryn Smith: No, I was so popular it was a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jo Phillips - Agent Kathryn Smith
Ashley Olsen - Abby Parker

“- Harriet: Ricky is my best friend.
- Gwen: He can't be Harriet. He's a man, he's a grown-up, he's a... retarded. If you hang around him long enough you'll start talking like him or walking like him or maybe even acting like him.
- Harriet: Well, at least it would be better than talking and walking and acting like you.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz
Mary Stuart Masterson - Gwen Frankovitz

“- Yale: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.
- Isaac: I gotta model myself after someone.”
Michael Murphy - Yale
Woody Allen - Isaac

- Harry Crumb: I am Djour Djilios.
- Suki's Salon Receptionist: Could you spell that, please?
- Harry Crumb: I don't think so. Try it with a "D".

John Candy - Harry Crumb
Brenda Crichlow - Suki's Salon Receptionist

“They mimic us. We mimic them.”
Mira Sorvino - Dr. Susan Tyler

“- Bob Crane: Please, not in front of the children! They look up to me!
- Anne Crane: They're small. They look up to everyone.”

Greg Kinnear - Bob Crane
Rita Wilson - Anne Crane

“The mutant buds are nearly ready, Great One. Soon we will release them into the atmosphere and take over the entire planet!”

Craig Ferguson - Matthew

“- Chorus Girl #1: How's that Barlow get to take Warner's place?
- Chorus Girl #2: Didn't you ever hear of poisonality?”