Top 191 Parody Quotes & Sayings

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

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

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

In education, parody is obsolete.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

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

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

I see parody as another form of comedy.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

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

You can parody almost anything.

The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. 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. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Old age is life's parody.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

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

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Ive become a parody of myself, as Im a big fan of a skinny cappuccino.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

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

Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

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

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.

Parody is homage gone sour.

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

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

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

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

I can only parody stuff I love.

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

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

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.