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I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us.

Human beings all mimic each other.

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.