Parody Quotes
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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.
The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.
People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque, and then I became the very thing I was making fun of.
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.
Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.
I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age
...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.
There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.
The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?
Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.
