You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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