Dana Carvey Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 43 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Dana Carvey.
Famous Quotes By Dana Carvey
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
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
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 know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago — Dana Carvey
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years. — Dana Carvey
My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin ... — Dana Carvey
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom. — Dana Carvey
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey
I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light. — Dana Carvey
I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. — Dana Carvey
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do. — Dana Carvey
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite. — Dana Carvey
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle. — Dana Carvey
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. — Dana Carvey
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
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
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
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. — Dana Carvey
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
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself. — Dana Carvey
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
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
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. — Dana Carvey
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! — Dana Carvey
I'm more of a people pleaser. — Dana Carvey
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. — Dana Carvey
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh. — Dana Carvey
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
I'm a real people-pleaser. — Dana Carvey
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids. — Dana Carvey
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
I never read the tabloids. — Dana Carvey
You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice. — Dana Carvey
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
I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days. — Dana Carvey
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes. — Dana Carvey
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
My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. — Dana Carvey
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.' — Dana Carvey
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie. — Dana Carvey