Dana Carvey

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

— Dana Carvey

#comic #describing #impossible #joke #near

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

#beach #characters #church #could #done

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. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#enjoy #far #go #how #how far

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

— Dana Carvey

#competition #francisco #got #i #lucky

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

#before #bill #had #i #live

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

#because #celebrity #character #dream #dream life

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

#cliche #eccentric #ever #family #funniest

I never read the tabloids. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#never #read #tabloids

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#confusion #constant #constant state #expression #face

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. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#begging #craig #get #got #i