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Dana Carvey

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

— Dana Carvey people

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

— Dana Carvey money

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

— Dana Carvey men

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

— Dana Carvey confusion

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

— Dana Carvey humor

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

— Dana Carvey read

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

— Dana Carvey politics

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

— Dana Carvey you

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

— Dana Carvey funny

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

— Dana Carvey funny

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

— Dana Carvey life

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

— Dana Carvey art

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

— Dana Carvey hate

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey time

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

— Dana Carvey love

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

— Dana Carvey luck

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

— Dana Carvey love

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

— Dana Carvey time

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

— Dana Carvey fight

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

— Dana Carvey people

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

— Dana Carvey joy

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

— Dana Carvey life

I never read the tabloids.

— Dana Carvey read

I'm a real people-pleaser.

— Dana Carvey people

I'm more of a people pleaser.

— Dana Carvey people

I know its a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, were all out of our minds. Theyre the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people Ive ever met, my siblings.

— Dana Carvey people

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