Al Yankovic Quotes

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

It was a life decision, deciding which path to take in my career. I needed time to get together with my family and closest friends.

I did not want to be an engineer or be in information technology, and my parents were supportive of my decision.