Top 33 Vicariously Quotes

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I think I’m a better mother because of work, because I’m happy. If I wasn’t working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.

We’ve become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people’s work instead of going out and making our own.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

If you’ve been married for 400 years, as I have, it’s nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

This may just be me, but I feel like everyone’s dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it’s one-on-one; it’s primal. There’s no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it – that nothing compares to being champ.

If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I’ll never forget watching ‘I’m Not There’ with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you’re almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

I don’t have any tattoos – I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can’t stick to one ensemble, I don’t think I could stick to one tattoo.

Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I’m drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they’re representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we’re most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character.

I feel like I’ve come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn’t have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously through magazines. I was obsessed with Jean Paul Gaultier. I still have the scrapbooks, and I’ve kept all my designs and sketches.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.

I live vicariously through my songs.

If you aren’t just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Before my time on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ Halloween was my favorite day of the year since I was a little kid. It’s the day we worship the macabre and live vicariously through the costumes that we wear.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

I don’t have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It’s all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It’s always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they’re presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

I’ve always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

I’m really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.