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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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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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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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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.
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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
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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.
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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
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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 think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the Letters and Tomatoes column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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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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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
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I 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. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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