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

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Level Old Read Thirty Years

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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Chance Characters Come Each Get Interact Other People See Stand-Up

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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.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Characters Enjoy Far Go How How Far Human Limit Look Make Matter Out Pushing Things

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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Comics Fundamentally Many Myself Persona Secret Want While

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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Almost Comedy Live Loved Night Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Seven Sketch Sketch Comedy Stayed Television Variety Well Years

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I'm more of a people pleaser.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: More People Pleaser

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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.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: After Begging Craig Get Got Jonathan Like Little Me Off Parents Recorder Recording Started Stuff Tape Tape Recorder Television Then Voices Winters Years

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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Arts Country Cross Friends Go Great Had Humor Intimidated Lot Out Scared Senses Team Theater Too Tried I Tried

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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Comedy Competition Francisco Got Lucky San San Francisco Stand-Up Stand-Up Comedy State Still While Won

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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.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Before Bill Bill Murray Had Live Looked Myself Never Night Really Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Saw Three Times Two Up World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 2nd, 1955

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