Shayna Baszler Quotes

I can't copy nature.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Duplication never works for anybody.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

I'm not a mimic.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

This is an exact replica of my chest.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

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

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.