Winona Ryder Quotes

I see parody as another form of comedy.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

You can parody almost anything.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.