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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. Dana Carvey

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I'm more of a people pleaser. Dana Carvey

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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

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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

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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

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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. Dane Cook

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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny. Dane Cook

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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching. Dane Cook

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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man. Dane Cook

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people. Dane Cook

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Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show. Dane Cook

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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it. Dane Cook

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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself. Dane Cook

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