Patrick Cox Quotes

Yes, I'm a personality. I accept that. O.K.? I understand it. But I'm a personality with credentials.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.