Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque,… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
“The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor… — Mad Magazine Editors Copy Share Image
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend.… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
“Sam laughed. "One of these days you're going to forget your lines and have to thribble, and it's going to come out… — Gary L. Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And… — Kyle Parker Copy Share Image
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
![“I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/don-hertzfeldt-16260_fiction_i-ve-loved-science-fiction-my-whole-life_504499.jpg)
![“We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/greg-mottola-18911_ideas_we-didn-t-want-to-make-it-a-parody-of-do_2821297.jpg)
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