Meat Loaf quotes

You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that. (Meat Loaf)

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

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As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

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The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

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There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

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Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

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Karaoke bars are devil worship!

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You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you're going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there's never a rhyme or reason. It's, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen.

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These stories get made up, and I don't know from where. I have no idea. I didn't make that one up - sometimes I make my own stories up - but I didn't make that one up.

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We were aware of her profile, and it was... first, it's artistic: can she do it? Is she capable of handling this? Can she handle it emotionally? The song. Because it's a very emotional song. Can she handle it melodically? Does she have the range for it? Second, now then, you've got that, now you look to see...because it's a very strange duet, and I've always said it was meant to be a duet. I had the song in '86, and I don't care what anybody else says; I know it was my song, it was given to me in '86, I was gonna do it, it was always gonna be a duet, and I think the only real life of it is a duet. And that's my opinion, and my opinion only. That's it. But when it's a duet, it's a definitive duet. And then because of how it's a call-and-response duet, you needed the timbre of the voices. If you get someone with the same timbres... I'm being analytical, but that's exactly why we picked Marion Raven. And then on the fourth hand... what, she's twenty-two years old? She can get MTV where I can't!

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My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny. (Meat Loaf)

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

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Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

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When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

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There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

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A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

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I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

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When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

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In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

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My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

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I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there. (Meat Loaf)

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

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For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

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