Glen Powell Quotes

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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.

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

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

No man was ever great by imitation.

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.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.