Dana Carvey Quotes

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

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

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

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

You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!' ~ Dana Carvey

I'm more of a people pleaser. ~ 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

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 must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time, I don't really know when that era was. I could watch Dana Carvey with my parents, they loved him too. They loved all his characters. ~ Mindy Kaling

Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because ... I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well. ~ Kevin Nealon

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

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

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

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

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 don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. ~ 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 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 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 had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." ~ Kurt Fuller

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

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! ~ Dana Carvey

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. ~ Dana Carvey

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. ~ Dana Carvey

There was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both. ~ Tina Fey

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

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer. ~ Dana Spiotta

One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right? ~ Dana Gould

Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise. ~ Dana Gould

And fall into his soothing arms like sleep. ~ Dana Gioia

Why is it, when I have nothing to do, I drink more coffee? It's as if I'm in a big hurry to get nothing done. ~ Dana Gould

Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute. ~ Dana Gould

As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image. And as the mole on my right breast is where it was when I was born, though all my body has been woven of new stuff time after time, so through the ghost of the unquiet father the image of the unliving son looks forth. In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be. ~ James Joyce

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up. ~ Dana Spiotta

girls always make themselves smaller, more compact, while boys always take up as much space as possible. why is that? do we think we don't deserve the same amount of space in the world? are we afraid they won't like us if we do? ~ Dana Czapnik

I open the door and fall into the arms of the person in front of me.
"Emerald, I am putting you into the bath right now." His voice is commanding, and I feel him dragging me along. My body is now engulfed in warm water; I open my eyes to stare at the white wall in front of me.
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The Passion To Live Sep 29 :-) ~ Dana L. Elgrod

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do. ~ Dana Hill

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail. ~ Dana Gould

I'd better pack my bikini, 'cause I'm going to hell. Michaela returned Robin's kiss with fervor, burying her hands in his rich, fiery hair. ~ Dana Marie Bell

Grief is messy. It's traumatic. Devastating. Confusing. Exhausting. Grief is a natural process of our human experience. May you find comfort in these unexpected places along your journey. ~ Dana Arcuri

It's not always easy to admit that we can step out of the Lord's will when we want our own way. Yet, these are teachable moments to grow our faith in the dark. To live and learn. To be spiritually strengthened. To deepen our trust in Him, especially when His will and our will are opposite. ~ Dana Arcuri

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work. ~ Dana White

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages. ~ Dana Schutz

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey. ~ Dana Gould

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast. ~ James Dwight Dana

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense. ~ Dana Gould

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them. ~ Dana Stabenow

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally? ~ Dana Gould

The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight. ~ Dana Perino

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. ~ Dana Gould

Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply, live deeply
and that this was a capacity to be cherished. ~ Melanie Benjamin

O Suburbs of Despair
where nothing but the weather ever changes! ~ Dana Gioia

Your external world mirrors your internal state. Heal the parts of you that need your attention or you will forever live out your pain for all to see. ~ Dana Hall LCPC, MA, TF-CBT

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days. ~ Dana Fuller Ross

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone. ~ Dana Gould

The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life. ~ Dana Arcuri

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo. ~ Dana Rohrabacher

Food is a lens for culture. ~ Dana Goodyear

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization. ~ Dana Spiotta

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen. ~ Dana Gould

I don't want to win the battle, Dana. I want to take the field, win the war. When I make love to you in this bed, it's going to be because you've accepted you're with the man and the Master you want for the rest of your life. ~ Joey W. Hill

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'. ~ Dana Gould

For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places. ~ Dana Spiotta

Teachers do work that is both personal and political. ~ Dana Goldstein

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal. ~ Dana Goodyear

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage. ~ Dana Reinhardt

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun! ~ Dana Delany

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar ... Yung No Mo ~ Dana Rosemary Scallon

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo. ~ Dana Goodyear