Quotes on the topic: Emulate


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I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.


I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.


Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.


I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.


Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.


I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.


Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.


I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.


I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified.


I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.


I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally.