Parody Quotes

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Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

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.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

You can parody almost anything.

Old age is life's parody.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

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.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

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.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

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.

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.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

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

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

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.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

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.