Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

When you are young, you admire the people you see on TV and you want to have the same gestures and the same attitudes and behave in the same way. It is a responsibility.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.