Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes

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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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

  Paracelsus
  • World
  • Man
  • Earth

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Defeated

• I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Time
  • Industry
  • Hospitality

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Future
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Home
  • College
  • English

• The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Truth
  • Cynicism

• Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Attention
  • Might

• For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

  

  Logan Lerman
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Attention