Dana Carvey Quotes
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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.
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You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago
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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.
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Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
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If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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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.
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You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'
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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.'
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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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.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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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.
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If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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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.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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