Parody Quotes
102 quotes by 84 authors
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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
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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
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
— Daniel Libeskind
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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
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
— Aldous Huxley
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Parody is homage gone sour.
— Brendan Gill
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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
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
— David Foster Wallace
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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
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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
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I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
— Ana Gasteyer
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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
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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
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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
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I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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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
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When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
— Bill Paxton
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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
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I see parody as another form of comedy.
— Bruce Campbell
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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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