David Copperfield Quotes

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

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.

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.

I steal from every movie ever made.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

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

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.

Everybody steals my lines.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

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

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

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.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.