Dana Carvey Quotes

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I don't follow nobody. If people want to follow me, it's because they see talent.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it's 1,600-capacity, then it's an arena - so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it's not enough.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

Money wants no followers.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all

My desire for fame is insatiable.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.