Al Yankovic Quotes

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

I kind of want to start doing some prank calls.

I just love pranks, man. They're great. I don't understand why people don't do 'em more often.

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch it... it feels real."

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.

I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there's no stairs. That's not funny! I don't want to be that guy!