I’m from the old school – you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it’s unfortunate. Dana Carvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dana Carvey Read Quote
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. Dana Carvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing ‘Saturday Night Live’ and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television. Dana Carvey Read Quote
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. Dana Carvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Monty Python never directly said, ‘We’re liberals’ – they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that’s their job – pointing out what other people might not notice and going, ‘Yoo-hoo, over here.’ Dana Carvey Read Quote
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It’s sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn’t the star. Dana Carvey Read Quote
