Lena Waithe Quotes

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

It's a copycat league.

I'm not a mimic.

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

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

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

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

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.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

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

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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

It messed with my head a little bit when people started to imitate what I was doing.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

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