Russi Taylor Quotes

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

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

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.

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.

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 made a statement all my own.

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

No man was ever great by imitation.

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

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

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.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

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.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

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

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.