Top 120 Emulate Quotes

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you’re listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing… You’re really trying to emulate them, then you realize, ‘I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.’

Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing… you’re just inspired by it; you’re not trying to say, ‘Look, I can do that.’ No one can do what he did.

Whenever I sing blues from the ’50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman emulate, I often feel the similarity of some of the ragtime stuff I sang early on. A lot of the phrasing and the harmonization is the same.

My ultimate goal is to emulate The Rock’s career.

I think it’s important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else’s look.

In retrospect, I’ve become wise in playing my roles in terms of acting techniques. But looking at my old performances when I was young like what I did in ‘My Lovely Sam Soon’ or ‘Secret Garden,’ there is something fresh and daring that I want to emulate now.

You can’t have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.

There were a lot of people I really admired and that I liked watching, but not that I tried to compare myself or emulate or nothing like that.

I never wanted to emulate anyone. Oh, I loved Elizabeth Taylor, Mae West, Lucille Ball. But I never tried to copy. I always wanted to be an original.

Question everything. Don’t try to emulate someone else’s path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you’re in; know the rules, and break them.

When someone did a route, I was always able to emulate exactly how they did it.

The way Michael Vick uses his legs and is able to throw out of the pocket really changes games. The way that Aaron Rodgers is able to sit in the pocket and make throws that not a lot of people can make – I hope I can be half what those guys are and emulate it into my game.

I didn’t play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.

There were certain Ray Charles albums and a couple of early Marvin Gaye records that I used to listen to with a vengeance. That’s how you forge a style. It excites you, and you lean toward it almost unconsciously. I was also a Beatles fanatic, but I didn’t emulate them the way I did the R&B artists.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

I wanted to emulate my parents – Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They’ve been married for so long, and it looks like they’re having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life.

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

I truly think you can get a great meal in most cities around the world now. I credit the internet for making it possible for a kid in Iowa to see what a great chef in Paris is doing and emulate it.

‘Andhadhun’ is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play the piano and then how to emulate gestures of a blind pianist.

We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature’s life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.

Scoring from a dead-ball brings me massive satisfaction. It sets me up as an example for other players to follow, copy, and perhaps even emulate over the course of time. For them, I’m a Juninho Pernambucano 2.0, a Brazilian with a Brescia accent.

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They’re boring mannerisms.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves – and may try to emulate them.

In any game, you have to work to stay in it, especially away against a good team like Southampton. It’s a fantastic club and one I’ve said on a few occasions Cardiff City would do well to emulate, both on and off the field.

A young basketball player has people to look up to an emulate. We are a pro league, and we’re on television. It makes a difference. It’s shows what’s possible.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You’d just be ripping them off.

The British fashion industry had major players, Mary Quant and Biba to name but a few, who were making incredibly stylish and youthful clothing for a generation who didn’t want to emulate their parents.

Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.

Before I knew it, I was singing, ‘I’m so tired of being alone,’ and that’s Al right there. From then, my attitude was, ‘Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I’m not going to emulate them anymore.’

I want to be the complete midfielder, someone who can defend and attack. Steven Gerrard is someone who’s done that very well over the years, and he is someone I am trying to emulate.

A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we’re very different artists. I took pages out of Pac’s book, of course, and lots of other rappers – Biggie, Nas – of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

It’s always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

I look up to my father, he’s done what he’s done, and I want to emulate his achievements and become as successful as he was. But I have to prove myself to the boxing community and to myself – that’s the most important thing.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn’t think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn’t see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it’s a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can’t hear the artist as well anymore. It’s very important to me to be invisible.

When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

One of the biggest things about being an entrepreneur is discovering your own management style. You can learn from others and try to emulate what they are doing, but at the end of the day, your inherent personality – how you deal with events and situations – comes to the forefront.

I wanted to emulate music from America – young punks playing rock n’ roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards’ autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t afraid of who he was. That’s the part I emulate.

Sounds are something that I always emulate – I’ll walk around, and if a coffee pot goes off or a phone rings, I’ll often mimic the sound. To me, everything’s got a voice.

I was influenced very much by St. Francis of Assisi, whose idea was to radically live the gospel. He was not a priest, or even a brother. He was a layperson. His whole concept was to emulate Christ through the gospels, and to live it in a radical way.

Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband’s death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.