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Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.
Dan Levy
Comedy
Drama
Dances
Easy
Also
Begin
Hard
My dad made a conscious choice to keep my family in Canada. I think he wanted us to have a pretty normal life and one that wasn't necessarily affected by the industry or all that comes with growing up in Hollywood.
Dan Levy
Life
Family
Made
Think
Pretty
He
Industry
Affected
Normal
Normal Life
Up
Canada
Wanted
Hollywood
Us
Choice
Dad
Growing
Keep
Growing Up
Conscious
Necessarily
I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.
Dan Levy
Think
Kids
About
Prevent
Industry
Read
Trying
Getting
Experienced
Themselves
Actor
My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.
Dan Levy
Day
Mom
Me
Gay
Lunch
Enough
Finally
Way
Respectful
Say
One Day
About
Never
Talked
Comfortable
Yes
Very
Lovely
Again
Asked
Really
I have no patience for homophobia.
Dan Levy
Patience
I've been a lover of fashion my whole life.
Dan Levy
Life
Fashion
Lover
Been
Whole
A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.
Dan Levy
Met
Films
Relationships
Extreme
Television
Queer
Lot
Tragedy
I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.
Dan Levy
Down
Throat
Never
Feel
Like
Forced
Learned
Being
Anything
Really
I went to private school and then chose to go to public school because I didn't like the private school experience; I didn't like that vibe.
Dan Levy
Experience
School
Like
Because
Go
Private
Private School
Vibe
Public
Then
Public School
Chose
I think I'd always been interested in performing.
Dan Levy
Think
Performing
Always
Been
Interested
I love food, and I'm a foodie; I try to hit as many restaurants as I can.
Dan Levy
Love
Food
Try
Restaurants
Hit
Many
I never pictured L.A. as a hub for amazing food, which I learned quite quickly is sheer naivete. The restaurants here are insane.
Dan Levy
Food
Amazing
Insane
Restaurants
Never
Naivete
Learned
Sheer
Hub
Quickly
Quite
Which
Here
Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing to do, is met with a lot of skepticism.
Dan Levy
Work
Entertainment
Natural
Parents
Met
Seems
Only
Arena
Pursue
Lot
Where
Children
Which
Skepticism
Natural Thing
Inherently
Who
Thing
I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.
Dan Levy
Funny
Blessing
People
Funny People
Incredibly
Has-Been
Find
Some
Spoiled
Terms
Because
Around
Been
Up
Curse
Which
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind of just like, 'Here's 20 ideas I thought of, and they can just pick the closest.'
Dan Mintz
You
Writing
Thought
Think
Else
Kind
About
Someone
Perfect
Pick
Like
Ideas
Because
Closest
Just
Hard
Show
Tone
Here
I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.
Dan Mintz
Natural
Stage
Performer
Fright
Stage Fright
Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.
Dan Mintz
Good
Food
You
People
Offended
Will
Feeling
Mouth
Pain
Despite
Laugh
Unpleasant
Wrong
Combination
Like
Makes
Itself
Taste
Just
Sensation
Being
Your
Actually
Right
Amount
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
Dana Carvey
Comedy
Live
Seven
Television
Stayed
Variety
Almost
Well
Years
Loved
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
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
You
Hurt
Money
Free
Those
Fame
Achilles
Achilles Heel
Heel
Then
Your
Things
Two
Need
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
Me
Business
Change
Balance
Personality
Focus
Narcissism
Difficult
Complete
Definite
Definitely
Total
Having
Having Children
Very
Being
Children
Sea
Sea Change
Hard
Show
Show Business
Dad
Found
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
Life
Funny
You
Wonderful
Citizen
College
Think
Analyzing
Kid
Collect
Citizen Kane
Some
Pretty
College Professor
Silly
About
Idea
Know
Commentary
Wonderful Life
Movie
Kane
Used
Even
Now
Professor
Laser
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
You
Church
Party
Too
Other
Characters
Beach
Could
Idea
Know
Malibu
Yes
Any
Done
Lady
Movie
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
Other
Out
Super
About
Only
Take
He
Stuff
Days
Like
His
Lot
Movie
Movie Star
Movies
Works
Star
Found
Recently
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
Dana Carvey
Me
People
Laugh
About
Something
More
More People
He
Almost
Like
Know
Him
Gore
Makes
Sound
Doing
Exotic
Just
Just Something
Even
Al
Al Gore
Why
Started
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
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