Parody Quotes

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Parody is homage gone sour.

You can parody almost anything.

Old age is life's parody.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

In education, parody is obsolete.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.