Dana Carvey Quotes
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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There's a shot that I designed to try and illustrate the scale of the Death Star that's sort of framed in close on the equatorial trench as Krennic's ship is leaving. The camera's pulling back, and you start with it framed so you can kind of see those docking bays that are in that trench.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
