Parody Quotes - page 3

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years. (Al Yankovic)
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. View quote
Adam McKay
I see parody as another form of comedy. View quote
Bruce Campbell
You can parody almost anything. View quote
Bruce McCall
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. View quote
Busy Philipps
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.' View quote
Eric Topol
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. View quote
James Wolcott
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody. View quote
John Podhoretz
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something. View quote
Mark Leyner
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen. View quote
Noel Wells
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. (Nancy Pearcey)
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple. View quote
Nate Mendel
All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it. View quote
Ricky Van Veen
On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love. View quote
Seth Green
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. View quote
T. J. Miller
I still find it utterly unacceptable that the Lewis chessmen are scattered around Britain in a bizarre parody of the . And you can be assured that I will continue campaigning for a united set of Lewis chessmen in an independent Scotland! View quote
Alex Salmond
Today I realize that many recent exercises in 'deconstructive reading' read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity. View quote
Umberto Eco
He Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. View quote
Truman Capote
To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
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. View quote
Georges Bataille
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. Ever since sentences started to circulate in brains devoted to reflection, an effort at total identification has been made, because with the aid of a copula each sentence ties one thing to another; all things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of Ariadne's thread leading thought into its own labyrinth. But the copula of terms is no less irritating than the copulation of bodies. And when I scream I AM THE SUN an integral erection results, because the verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy. Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime. (Georges Bataille)
Love then screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun. I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night. The Sun exclusively loves the Night and directs its luminous violence, its ignoble shaft, toward the earth, but finds itself incapable of reaching the gaze or the night, even though the nocturnal terrestrial expanses head continuously toward the indecency of the solar ray. The solar annulus is the intact anus of her body at eighteen years to which nothing sufficiently blinding can be compared except the sun, even though the anus is night. View quote
Georges Bataille
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. View quote
Rory Bremner
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. View quote
Bernard Berenson