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Dana Carvey Quotes

I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

Dana Carvey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1955

Topics

Pilot Audience Ball Out Started Mic

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

John Foxe

Long Miserable Average Seventeen Ten

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Matthew McConaughey

Writing Start You Phone Now Want

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

Travis Bradberry

Moment People Feel Conversation Room

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

Roger Rees

You Off Even Shakespeare Scene

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Ron Silver

Character Intelligence People Dream

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Russell Banks

Work Learn Accountant Living Dentist

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Douglas Coupland

Future People Think Homework Year

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Dean Karnazes

Worth Goal Achieving Risk Element

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

Brian Kernighan

Time Purpose School Writing World

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

Pierre Dukan

Life Food Fat Trying You First

I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.

Poo Bear

Writing Seeds Down Just Because Mean

It's not that I hate all of my material - I think it was good. I liked it. I just don't ever want to hear it.

Tig Notaro

Good Hate Think Want Just Hear