Quotes by Dana Carvey

About Dana Carvey:

Dana Thomas Carvey is an American actor and stand-up comedian, known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth Algar in the Wayne's World films.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

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 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 f...

Dana Carvey

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

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dana Carvey

I'm more of a people pleaser.

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'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

Author Bio

  • NameDana Carvey
  • DescriptionComedian
  • BornJune 2, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award