If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
AL YANKOVICI have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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