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
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
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 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 affordcompletelydraft 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