Dana Carvey Quotes


"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
(Related: Life, Dream, Character, Celebrity, World)

"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
(Related: Draft, Fight)

"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
(Related: Idea, Church, Beach, Lady, Party)

"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."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Gay)

"It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: People, Sound)

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Old, Years)

"This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Life, Sex, Kids, Parents, Will)

"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Funny, Life, Idea, College, Now, Pretty, Silly)

"That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Comedians, Corporate)