Ari Graynor Quotes

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

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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

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.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

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.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

No man was ever great by imitation.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

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.

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.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.