Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carveyis an American actor and stand-up comedian known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth Algar in the Wayne's World films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 June 1955
CityMissoula, MT
CountryUnited States of America
money hurt two
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 need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
night years two
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.
night two world
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.
divorce two fire
You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'
american-comedian case gotten monster purely studio
I can tell you now what I couldn't tell the studio then: Purely in case the movie was like a monster smash, I would have gotten too recognized.
fate next suffer
My fate is very precarious, ... I don't want the show to suffer because I may not be able to come back next week.
american-comedian needed scene shoot written
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.
american-comedian bob corporate hope hours modern putting trying
You trying putting Bob Hope in a modern corporate movie now and get him up at 4:00 a.m. and get him on the set for 20 hours a day.
brother sibling mean
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.
character matter limits
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.
stars impossible sometimes
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
winter years voice
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.
interesting stuff existential
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
years levels four
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.