I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character. - Dana Carvey
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
- Dana Carvey
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 Ay… - Dana Carvey
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 Ay…
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite. - Dana Carvey
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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
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.
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
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.
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.' - Dana Carvey
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'
I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. - Dana Carvey
I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.
If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln! - Dana Carvey
If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't ne… - Dana Carvey
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't ne…
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