Dana Carvey Quotes

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."

"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."

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

"I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'"

"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."

"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."

"There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too."

"If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy."

"The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay."

"I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

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

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