Dana Carvey Quotes (12 Quotes)


    That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

    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.

    I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

    I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

    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.


    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?

    You trying putting Bob Hope in a modern corporate movie now and get him up at 400 a.m. and get him on the set for 20 hours a day.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.


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