93 Quotes by Dana Carvey

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    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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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    I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

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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.

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