Al Yankovic Quotes

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

People confuse the person and the part.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for

We can't tell our life from our wish

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare where I feel like I need to play into it, then I find myself acting like the character in real life.