Elvis Mitchell Quotes

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I steal from every movie ever made.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

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

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Everybody steals my lines.

When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

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

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.