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. Dana Carvey developdisappearfair share on social
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. Dana Carvey abstractcomicdescribe Change image and share on social
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty. Dana Carvey famousnuttytheory Change image and share on social
I always grew up with, 'Question authority.' Dana Carvey authoritygrowquestion Change image and share on social
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control. Dana Carvey begincontroldirect share on social
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. Dana Carvey auditionaykroydbelushi Change image and share on social
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 anticomediandirectly share on social
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. Dana Carvey biteburnettcarol Change image and share on social
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. Dana Carvey levelreadthirty Change image and share on social
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 artcountrycross Change image and share on social