Meat Loaf Quotes

"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."

"Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work."

I met Elvis and John Lennon and I was an idiot. A complete moron."


"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."

"I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting."

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent, to Faith Hill, because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it."

"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."

"You do not measure success by sales or dollars and cents. It is measured by the work, how you feel, and did you give everything you had?"

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

"I'm not built to be a celebrity."

Famous Rappers Turned Actors

Tupac Shakur: Made a half dozen movies before his murder in 1996, his best being "Above The Rim" (1994). Also appeared on TV's "A Different World".

Ice Cube: Has been in several hit films "Boyz N The Hood", "Friday", "Anaconda", "Three Kings", "Barbershop". Also has produced and has even tried directing.

LL Cool J: Most recently has appeared on the hit TV series "NCIS: Los Angeles". Before that has starred in numerous films including "Rollerball", "Any Given Sunday" and "Deep Blue Sea".

Eminem: Had a big hit with the 2002 film "8 Mile" and even won an Oscar for best song. Slim Shady was also hilarious as himself in the movie "Funny People".



Ice T: Has had most of his success on TV. Co-stars on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and plays himself on reality TV's "Ice Loves Coco".

Queen Latifah: Lots of hit films for Queen Latifah. She's starred in "Chicago", "Bringing Down The House", "Hairspray" and "Valentine's Day". She was also the voice of a woolly mammoth in the Ice Age Movies.

Mos Def: One of my favourite rappers turned actors. He was great in "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", also appeared in "Showtime", "Monster's Ball", "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind".

Ludacris: He was quite good in "Crash", which won the Academy Award for best picture for 2005. Also Appeared in a couple of Fast & Furious films.

50 Cent: He Made his big screen acting debut in "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" (2005). 50 has been in several movies since then, including co-starring with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in "Righteous Kill" (2008).

Snoop Dogg: He's made numerous appearances on TV and in movies, but is most memorable as Huggy Bear in "Starsky And Hutch".