After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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