Quotes by Dana Carvey

Dana Carvey

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.

Voice

Winter

Years

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

Clubs

Enough

Turtles

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

Impossible

Sometimes

Stars

I don’t find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

Existential

Interesting

Stuff

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.

Character

Limits

Matter

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

Competition

Lucky

San Francisco

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

Littles

Theory

Years

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.

Father

Kids

Regret

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I’m always in character.

Character

Dream

World

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

Mean

Thinking

Would Be

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Babe

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Causes

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Comedian

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Divorce

Dream

Enough

Existential

Father

Fire

Gay

Hurt

Ifs

Impossible

Interesting

Kids

Kind

Laughing

Levels

Light

Limits

Littles

Lucky

Matter

Mean

Modern

Money

Negative

People

Persona

Personality

President

Regret

San Francisco

Secret

Sometimes

Sound

Stars

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Quotes by Dana Carvey

Dana Carvey

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.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

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

I don’t find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

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

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

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.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I’m always in character.

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

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