Best Parody Quotes
102 Parody quotes by 84 unique authors
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We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of…
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera…
— David Henrie
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be…
— Umberto Eco
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on…
— RuPaul
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I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect,…
— Jim Norton
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The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient…
— Thomas Paine
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The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Old age is life's parody.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody…
— Anita Sarkeesian
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
— Ivan Reitman
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The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to…
— John Hamill
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The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
— Bernard Berenson
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Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the…
— Thomas Szasz
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
— Larry McMurtry
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You can parody almost anything.
— Bruce McCall
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I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or…
— Mark Leyner
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own…
— Nancy Pearcey
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I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
— Busy Philipps
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
— Ted Rall
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
— Al Yankovic
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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
— Tobias Wolff
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I…
— Nate Mendel
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