Dana Carvey Quotes - Page 2

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• Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

  Dana Carvey

  Prayer, Bars, Lord

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

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Littles, Theory

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Television

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• 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.

  Dana Carvey

  Gay, Laughing, Als

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

  Dana Carvey

  Character, People, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dana Carvey

  Comedian, Kind, Modern

  "Dana Carvey Talks Master of Disguise". Interview, www.ign.com. January 16, 2003.

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

  Dana Carvey

  Secret, Want, Persona

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dana Carvey

  San Francisco, Competition, Lucky

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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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

  Winter, Years, Voice

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• 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

  Television, Ridiculous, No Confidence

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• 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

  Country, Art, Team

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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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

  Brother, Sibling, Mean

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• If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

  Dana Carvey

  Hollywood, Kind, Certain

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• I'm a real people-pleaser.

  Dana Carvey

  Real, People, Pleasers

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