Dana Carvey Quotes
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
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I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
