Dana Carvey Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
-
Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
-
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
-
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
-
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
-
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
-
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
-
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
-
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
-
We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
-
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
-
Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
-
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
-
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
-
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
-
When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
-
Everybody needs somebody.
-
The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
-
You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.
-
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
-
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
-
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.
