Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
-
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
-
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
-
It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
-
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
-
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
-
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
-
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
-
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
-
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
-
I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
-
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
-
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
-
I hate big models.
-
There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.
-
The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
-
China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
-
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.
