Top 45 Mimic Quotes

I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

I have a schizophrenic career. I have ‘Cronos’ and ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ on one hand, and then I have ‘Blade 2’ and ‘Mimic’ on the other.

It’s OK to stand back. But it’s also good to demonstrate that it’s fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, ‘This looks fun. I’d like to try this, too,’ your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Ray,’ the type of movies you wouldn’t think a little kid would know. But my parents thought I was great.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I’ve always been a good mimic. It really wasn’t that hard for me.

I’m a huge mimic. That’s how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects.

Human beings all mimic each other.

When I’m around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

You might be able to mimic other styles but what’s important is that you are true to who you are. You have to find your own voice.

There are many people I admire and seek advice from, but for the most part, I just follow my gut instead of trying to mimic someone else’s leadership style.

I subconsciously mimic whomever I’m talking to, so I’ve been mistaken for a Canadian, a South American, and somebody from the West Country.

I find society’s underlings and people with interesting idiosyncrasies the most watchable. But I also love to mimic people who are ego-driven and kind of go through the world like lions.

I don’t want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the ‘Dune’ project is all about.

You don’t have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody’s voice. My sister Katrine was walking past one day and could hear our dad shouting and thought, ‘God, I won’t go in that room!’ but realised it was Nicol Williamson mimicking my father’s voice perfectly.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It’s not to mimic her. It’s to remind myself to be more committed.

That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I’d always be able to just mimic things.

TV is all about learning to write in someone else’s voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own project, they assume you don’t have your own voice; you’re just a good mimic.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I’m a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don’t have to study people who came before you. You don’t have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what’s right for you, and you can’t do it in any other way.

The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I’m doing ‘Blade 2’ and not ‘Alien 4’ is because I connect with the universe of ‘Blade.’ I don’t connect with the universe of ‘Alien.’ Besides, I already did ‘Alien 4’: It’s called ‘Mimic.’

I watched Magic Johnson on tape. I didn’t have a chance to watch him live. I remember I was 12 or 13, watching games, going to the gym and trying to mimic what they do. Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, all those guys.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

I can hear someone’s voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I like to mimic accents. I don’t even know if that’s a talent. That’s just a weird thing that I do.

I’m not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn’t hit the road.

I don’t want to be anyone’s mimic.

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That’s what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

People are fascinated by robots because they’re machines that can mimic life.

There’s a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they’ve all fallen short.

I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem – but it is the way a lot of us live. These profiles mimic our physical selves and a lot of the time are even more important. They are ways to connect with an audience, to start discussion, and to create change.

When the first video was uploaded to YouTube, that’s when we realized that people outside of Japan were interested. That’s where we see Babymetal spreading, with people trying to mimic music or dance moves.

I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, ‘What is a stroke?’ I didn’t really know. It’s okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

Over the years, I’ve heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven’t fully cared for them. They weren’t the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.