Parody Quotes - Page 3

• May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Real, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.372

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• There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

  Andy Milonakis

  Art, Want, Sides

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

  Busy Philipps

  Lying, Persons, Incapable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

  Ben Stiller

  Growing Up, Creativity, Spinal Tap

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, World, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.

  Vincent Canby

  Running, Self, Risk

  "‘Godfather, Part II’ Is Hard to Define" by Vincent Canby, www.nytimes.com. December 13, 1974.

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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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• Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Sarcasm, Emotional, Symphony

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• Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

  Al Yankovic

  Hate

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Fall, Writing, Self

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• The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

  Mary Robinson

  Ideas, Fans, May

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Littles, Scandal, Embarrassed

  "Miley Cyrus photo Uproar: Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad, Hilary Duff, Nick Cannon Weigh In" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2008.

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• As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Genre, Can Not

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  Pat Robertson

  Reality, Wings, Right Wing

  "Pat Robertson: A Life, A Legacy, Part 1". Interview with Lee Webb, www.cbn.com.

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• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Purple, Typical

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• Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

  Tom Wolfe

  Voice, Target, Hostile

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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 scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Scary, Trying

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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

  Mean, Black And White, Tv Shows

  "Dan Aykroyd Talks Vodka, 'SNL' And Hellhound Blues". Interview with Kenneth Hein, www.forbes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Smarter

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• Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Butterfly, Enough Time, Dew

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Time”

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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 off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

  Thomas Boswell

  Skills, Sorrow, Tragedy

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

  Al Yankovic

  Decision, Taste, Personal Taste

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

  Al Yankovic

  Funny, Writing, Merit

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Clever, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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