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.

  • You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

  • 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.

  • Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

    "The Master of Disguise". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

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

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

  • If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

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

    Years  
    "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

    Two  
  • 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.'

  • If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

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

    "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.
  • When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Years  
    "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.
  • That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

    "Dana Carvey Talks Master of Disguise". Interview, www.ign.com. January 16, 2003.
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!

  • 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 talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    World  
    "Dana Carvey Talks Master Of Disguise". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. January 16, 2003.
  • 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.

    Night   Two   World  
    "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.
  • I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

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

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

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

    Years  
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