24 Dana Carvey Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dana Carvey

American Comedian

Born: Jun 2, 1955

Comedy Live Me Money People You

Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields

I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement. Dana Carvey

Daily Man Take Supplement Iron Iron Man

Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult. Dana Carvey

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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

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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

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

Old Thirty Read Years Level

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

Myself Secret Comics Persona Want While Many Fundamentally

I'm more of a people pleaser. Dana Carvey

People Pleaser More

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 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

Great Humor Country Too Intimidated Out Tried Scared Cross Cross Country Had Go Lot Friends Arts Senses Theater Team

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

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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

I'm a real people-pleaser. Dana Carvey

Real

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control. Dana Carvey

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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you! Dana Carvey

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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class. Dana Carvey

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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.' Dana Carvey

Always Question Up Authority Grew

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