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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

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

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

In education, parody is obsolete.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.