A Quote by Greg Proops

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

Greg Proops

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Greg Proops
American - Actor
Born: October 3, 1959

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Ritchie Blackmore

Dan Poynter

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

Tom Green

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Amelia Barr

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Yohji Yamamoto

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Michael Caine

Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

Kevin Spacey

System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations.

Chris Shipley

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Tony Scott

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

Simon Toyne

Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young, anxious, nervous photographer. I worried that I was copying too many other people. And he said, "It's all right to copy people, as long as the people you copy are good and you copy them well."

Jerry Schatzberg

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Malcolm Mclaren

I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'