My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
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… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
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… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
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… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
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… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
