Al Yankovic Quotes

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.

Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Life should be great rather than long.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.