A Quote by Dana Carvey
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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I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
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