Carl Kasell Quotes

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

There have been comparisons but I don't want to be compared with anyone. I want to be myself, with my own style and identity.

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

No man was ever great by imitation.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

My style is all to myself.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.