Parody Quotes

102 quotes by 84 authors

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
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a… — Simone de Beauvoir
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude… — Drake
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. — Aldous Huxley
Parody is homage gone sour. — Brendan Gill
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the… — Julia Gillard
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. — David Foster Wallace
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… — Ernest Hemingway
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring… — John Krasinski
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer
The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same… — Peter Funt
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a… — Julia Serano
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… — David Foster Wallace
I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies. — Jamie Lee Curtis
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then… — Umberto Eco
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. — Bill Paxton
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,… — Judith Butler
I see parody as another form of comedy. — Bruce Campbell
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence… — Thomas Boswell

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