I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.
I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Every actor must go through the process of learning and not just be in a hurry to become famous. They should learn to live in small amounts and not to try and copy others.
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
